spiked

From the first chart, data is only aggregated yearly, Median Series C funding only spiked for 1 year (2014).

Code generation is a giant spiked mallet for a nail which can easily be screwed with a small screwdriver.

This was occurring as recently as last year all over the world when commodity/food prices spiked.

Food cost spiked several times in the 2000s leading to food riots and was a likely catalyst of the Arab Spring.

As the return of Hong Kong to China approached, the influx of Chinese investment spiked.

I read somewhere recently that their data usage has spiked several thousand percent since the iPhone came out.

When that happened, it spiked a good two additional Dollar, but lost around $1.9 of that over the course of the next minutes.

My guess: the price of sugar spiked and the price of oil fell?

Interesting when your product can be spiked, and make significant increases in profit.

If I had held out until now (the price spiked around 2013), it would have been closer to $4M.

Before you take a long term position, check to make sure the stock has not spiked up in the last week or so.

I've had news stories that were in the public interest spiked because of spin doctors meddling.

The transaction volume spiked because of "stress tests" on the network that delayed transactions for normal people for 30+ hours.

PS: Our "high" 1-2% chargeback spiked sometimes as customers that had made 10+ transactions during a year could start a chargeback for all transactions.

The "improving trauma care" can't explain why there have been declines in categories of crime across the board,[1] or why murder rates spiked almost as steeply from the 50s to the 90s (while trauma care was also improving) as they declined afterwards.[2] Vehicle theft rates are less than a fourth what they were in 1990.