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meteoric

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1. meteoric - Adjective

2. meteoric - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.

Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.

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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. E. E. Cummings

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. Emily Greene Balch

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar... I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you. Romain Gary

a meteoric rise to fame Source: Internet

meteoric shower Source: Internet

meteoric impacts Source: Internet

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