inflated

Example Sentences

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The companies’ intricate web of cross-shareholdings artificially inflated their share prices.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That way we’ll avoid the LA28 traffic, limited parking and inflated prices.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

It was also a rebuke to the idea of grandiosity, in which inflated self-regard amounts to a distorted relationship with reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

That resulted a small denominator within the P/E ratio that artificially inflated the profitability metric.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow