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become bloated



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Have they become bloated and inefficient, with their high swipe fees and exorbitant interest rates and empty promises of free tickets?

From Seattle Times May 20, 2024

Investors fear that multidivisional businesses become bloated bureaucracies where each division is underperforming and hiring the right employees is challenging, with resources poorly allocated.

From Washington Post Feb. 20, 2023

Some conservatives have increasingly argued that military spending, particularly funding that goes to contractors, has become bloated and wasteful, a view that mirrors that of many Democrats.

From Washington Times Jan. 8, 2023

Page, Google’s co-founder and chief executive, often complained that the company had become bloated, and had lost the hacker mentality that had fuelled its initial success.

From The New Yorker Oct. 15, 2018

This explained how the fish had died—for, of course, place a saltwater fish in fresh water and it will quickly become bloated and die.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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