balloon

Example Sentences

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If that happens, Zuckerberg’s current stock, worth some $200 billion, would balloon to $1.2 trillion.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

This allows events to balloon beyond our comprehension, and may be preventing us from stopping this insanity.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

I had started going through menopause, so in the first or second season, I kind of blew up like a little balloon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

His record high price is the $25.4 million resale in 2021 of that partially self-destructed view of a girl reaching for a floating-away balloon at Sotheby’s, renamed “Love is in the Bin.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

When its subprime hedge funds crashed in June, Bear Stearns was forcibly severed from its line—and the balloon drifted farther from the ground.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis