inflate

Example Sentences

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Charities are urging people not to turn their heating off as the war in Iran continues to inflate energy prices.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

And more importantly, he didn’t inflate it into a referendum on the character of New Yorkers.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

According to the indictment, Warner’s and Vangipuram’s scheme to inflate Mobileum’s revenue began after the company’s owners—Audax, though not named in the complaint—sought a buyer around 2020 or 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

VC built Silicon Valley, helped inflate the dot-com bubble of the ’90s, and is behind many of today’s artificial-intelligence bets.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

This cosmic egg would explode, inflate, and create the space-time of our universe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife