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An independent commission found that, during that time period, the club arranged "sham contracts" as well as "relying on sham agreements to artificially inflate the club's revenues and reduce its costs".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

There’s no movie star to take charge, and Greengrass doesn’t inflate the passengers into larger-than-life heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court said Hui and Evergrande entities had carried out sustained and large-scale financial fraud between 2016 and 2021 to inflate assets and hide liabilities, according to the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

When I inhale, my stomach must inflate like a balloon.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

"It inflates the entire sector - it inflates the Premier League, the Bundesliga, the French League, and eventually us as well."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Buying SPX puts as general portfolio protection inflates the VIX, while buying individual equity puts keeps the equity-only put-call ratios high.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

The currency’s slide inflates the top-line export figure, which is calculated in yen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"Dominance of a few tech corporations in public infrastructure limits... our flexibility, threatens our security and inflates our software costs," Schroedter told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

Whatever was in her throat got bigger, like one of those foam bath pellets that inflates in water.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

On the American side, he argued, the same inflated projections fueled warnings that China’s overtaking was inevitable, fueling a Washington consensus built partly on what he calls a statistical mirage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Investigations alleged that South African supplier Ren-Form grossly inflated prices and subsequently paid hundreds of millions of rand to a company linked to him.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

There’s nothing inherently wrong with guesstimating economic opportunities, but the more prominent, inflated, or specific they are, the worse of a sign it can be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Public golf courses belong to the public, and residents shouldn’t have to compete with brokers buying up tee times just to turn around and sell them at inflated prices,” he said in a statement Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

It's upside down and sitting on the inflated roof.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

But as it stands they are guilty of all charges related to inflating their sponsorship income to the tune of £830m, plus another £90m in expenses.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company has said it stands by its ratings — two former employees are suing it as they said they were pressured into inflating ratings to attract business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

To them, chip makers and data-center suppliers are inflating results across all sectors, while raising fresh concerns about spending and free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The employees had accused UniCredit of artificially inflating acceptance figures for its offer after Commerzbank said it had no evidence of its own institutional investors accepting the offer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Sometimes, from behind Nicholas, she would catch Obinze’s eye and make a funny face, inflating her cheeks into small balloons, or pushing her tongue out of the corner of her mouth.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie