inflate
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There’s no movie star to take charge, and Greengrass doesn’t inflate the passengers into larger-than-life heroes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Between 2016 and 2021, Evergrande and Xu as its boss "violated national laws by engaging in continuous, large-scale financial fraud and other means to inflate assets and conceal liabilities", the court said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
When I inhale, my stomach must inflate like a balloon.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Buying SPX puts as general portfolio protection inflates the VIX, while buying individual equity puts keeps the equity-only put-call ratios high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It’s terrible for most kids around the country, because it inflates their expectations,” said Jon Reider, a former Stanford admissions officer who is now an independent college consultant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Ticketmaster and Live Nation have repeatedly faced criticism from those who say the firm artificially inflates the cost of tickets with fees and service charges.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
"Dominance of a few tech corporations in public infrastructure limits... our flexibility, threatens our security and inflates our software costs," Schroedter told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Looking up at him, I see his chest inflates and exhales deeply, and his jaw is square as he clenches his teeth.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
The stated goal is reasonable: Make sure insurers aren’t hiding high-risk assets behind inflated grades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
FTC officials say Amazon has secretly inflated the minimum prices required to win ad placements, intervening in auctions to raise the price 70% to 80% of the time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“That’s an inflated promise. But I will tell you, we will build, and I will tell you, there will be more Californians who own a home,” Becerra said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I inflated all twelve cones with air and I filled each buoyancy chamber with the requisite ten litres of sea water.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Now it’s inflating the dating value of bachelors and bachelorettes in the semiconductor industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Knight Law Group denied inflating their billing, calling the suit a “thinly veiled attempt to silence firms who would dare to hold them responsible and seek justice for consumers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The companies are suspected of inflating ice cream prices beyond increases in the cost of raw materials, even as the country faces a hot summer with record high temperatures.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
UniCredit's reporting of a gradually increasing uptake of its offer prompted accusations from Commerzbank that it was artificially inflating the figures.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
I ask, this bubble of hope inflating inside me.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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