inflate
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The simplest way to escape this debt burden is to do what the U.S. did after 1945, and inflate it away.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Uber contends this arrangement has created an incentive for doctors and attorneys to collude to dramatically inflate medical bills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
A persistently weak yen is also threatening to inflate import costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
"The primary use case for a humanoid robot today is to walk on stage and artificially inflate your share price," he says.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
He gave me the ball back and I did as he said, pointing my finger toward that little hole where you stick the pin in to inflate the ball.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
The bottleneck that inflates Nvidia’s margins also inflates the cost of building the infrastructure that generates them.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
The currency’s slide inflates the top-line export figure, which is calculated in yen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Ticketmaster and Live Nation have repeatedly faced criticism from those who say the firm artificially inflates the cost of tickets with fees and service charges.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Financial market bubbles tend to form when the value of an asset class inflates to levels that far exceed what it can actually deliver.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
And then he smiles at me again, and I swear my heart inflates into one huge red balloon.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
That sounds like a $30 million a year guy in these inflated salary times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
They circulated inflated casualty figures in an open letter to Pope John Paul II and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Such was the dominance of the two academies that they had an informal agreement not to sign players from one another, helping to avoid inflated wages and transfer fees at youth level.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
On top of that, Microsoft must deal with inflated memory prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
They usually featured easy credit and inflated prices.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Football's governing body was subpoenaed to answer allegations of "artificially inflating prices" and "misleading fans".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Amazon tried tracking AI usage and displaying scores on a companywide leaderboard, but the technique failed because workers started inflating their usage scores, meaning they were likely not being very productive.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
I sent out members to mingle with crowds and try to discourage any further violence and sent an open letter to all the press denouncing them for "distorting" and inflating minor incidents.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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