stratospheric

How could it be that this word, and not “what” or “why,” has caused a bare-knuckle brawl at such a stratospheric social level?

The skier most connected to that stratospheric rise is Bode Miller.

You were once middle class like us and now you are in Paris with stratospheric wealth.

Higher interest rates don't do the trick -- people didn't save more in the early 80s when interest rates were stratospheric.

Yahoo soared, and in early 2000 it was worth a stratospheric (and yes, somewhat absurd) $130 billion, which it has never matched.

In less than thirty seconds the Beam Transmitters can charge the entire stratospheric envelope of Agron.

They could be used only defensively to girdle a single planet in the stratospheric level of its atmosphere.