inflated

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Now the government insists that number is inflated includes tens of thousands who may be alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the organization for regulators from every U.S. state, in 2024 published a bombshell study revealing that the ratings on insurers’ private-credit investments were routinely inflated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The companies’ intricate web of cross-shareholdings artificially inflated their share prices.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That resulted a small denominator within the P/E ratio that artificially inflated the profitability metric.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

They stuck me with a needle, inflated me like a state-fair balloon, and shipped me off to a hospital with steel-eyed nurses who wrote down every bad number.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson