inflated
Example Sentences
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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
Lively sought to recover more than $8 million in attorneys’ fees and other expenses, which Baldoni’s lawyers argued was so inflated the court should deny the claim altogether or substantially reduce it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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