balloon

Anya said in English, before the girls joined classmates playing with a huge red, yellow and blue balloon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

His movement was like a balloon man in front of a car dealership and when I look back at the moves, it’s pretty hard to watch, but I guess it was funny at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Many current systems use superconducting circuits, but these are highly sensitive to electromagnetic noise and stray electrical charges - similar to the static electricity that can make hair cling to a balloon.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits bill to balloon while not offering young people opportunities.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

At once the balloon stretched taut, straining at the ropes.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

His rallies have featured massive US flags and giant inflatable balloons of Trump, who has not endorsed the senator, but has said he is "very closely" watching the election.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

In early K-pop, fans supported artists by waving coloured balloons or generic glow sticks.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“The courts were saying, ‘Who is using hot air balloons?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He runs in, and they kiss as balloons rain down around them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

One of the balloons floated eerily above a bright vase full of irises.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Between the first round on October 4 and the runoff on Sunday, the channel's following ballooned from 60,000 people to almost 11 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Private credit has ballooned in recent years from an opaque corner of the financial world into a multitrillion-dollar business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

When Puerto Rico’s debt crisis ballooned into the largest governmental default in U.S. history, Congress stepped in with an unprecedented solution.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2026

OTTAWA—Canada’s goods-trade surplus with the world ballooned to the largest in more than four years as tariff front-running drove a jump in exports to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He didn’t apologize, he just stood still for a moment, fear ballooned on his face, openmouthed and unable to find that condescending glare down the slope of his nose he usually found for me.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Back then, many homeowners were holding adjustable-rate mortgages with payments that were ballooning, meaning that they would soon be facing a much higher mortgage payment that they could not afford.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Frustrated with ballooning legal costs and her handling of a department data breach, the city’s powerful police union abandoned Feldstein Soto and backed McKinney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Education Department says the changes are in part meant to address the ballooning costs of college, which can saddle graduates with huge debt loads that follow them well into their retirement years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Interest costs on around $32 trillion in publicly held US debt have been ballooning in recent years, and climbing bond yields have sparked further concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

She’s twirling a string of hair around her index finger so tightly the tip’s ballooning red and bulbous like it might burst.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson