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balloon

noun as in inflated material or vehicle

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verb as in billow out; bloat

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Yet the costs of law enforcement are ballooning and, according to City Council members, unsustainable.

Zhong isn’t the only one whose fortune has ballooned from Nongfu’s trading debut.

From Fortune

Perhaps this is why search interest in SEO itself, which was largely stagnant from mid-2017 to early this year, has ballooned.

In a brief moment of rapid expansion, that burst of energy inflated the cosmos like a balloon.

Future satellites or weather balloons could provide data on whether this has happened, says Pengfei Yu.

He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released.

She had grown so perfect and gentle and consoling that it was unbearable, she was a big, round smooth balloon without a face.

The Great Texas Balloon Race on July 29th-August 4th feature daily races with some of the best balloon pilot talent in the game.

Manned, unmanned, a balloon, a kite—you still have to get the information into the hands of the firefighters.

This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.

For, at that moment Squinty stood up on his hind legs, as the boy had taught him, and walked over toward the big balloon basket.

Squinty cuddled down in the basket of the balloon, between two bags full of something, and shivered.

There were a great many of them in the balloon, and Squinty thought they must have something good in them.

Mandy Ann had put on her best frock, a white one, stiff with starch, and standing out like a small balloon.

There was nothing left before him now but San Francisco or a balloon; heaven being out of the question.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to balloon, such as: blimp, airship, bladder, dirigible, and zeppelin.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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