inflate

Example Sentences

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Investors, for their part, know they are unlikely to get all the shares they ask for in the IPO, so traditionally they inflate the number they want.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Both rappers have accused each other of using bots to artificially inflate their listening figures - something that was mentioned in Drake's lawsuit against his own label, Universal Music Group, which was eventually thrown out.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The researchers say this interaction could partly inflate the estimated genetic influence of IQ, potentially by as much as 15 percentage points.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Earlier this year, Yann LeCun, previously Meta’s chief AI scientist, claimed that benchmark results for Llama 4 had been manipulated to inflate the model’s perceived performance against competitors.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

There are more nuanced ways to inflate students’ scores.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt