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Between 2016 and 2021, Evergrande and Xu as its boss "violated national laws by engaging in continuous, large-scale financial fraud and other means to inflate assets and conceal liabilities", the court said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Egan-Jones Ratings, based in King of Prussia, Pa., is being sued by two former employees who allege that it pressured staff to inflate ratings to gain business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

For these households, today’s $61,000 average annual retirement-age spending could inflate to $110,000 over the next two decades, when they reach retirement age.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Decker says he has seen firsthand how this inflates application numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The bottleneck that inflates Nvidia’s margins also inflates the cost of building the infrastructure that generates them.

From MarketWatch ● 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

In other words, asking about food decisions piece by piece naturally inflates the total.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

Looking up at him, I see his chest inflates and exhales deeply, and his jaw is square as he clenches his teeth.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

FTC officials say Amazon has secretly inflated the minimum prices required to win ad placements, intervening in auctions to raise the price 70% to 80% of the time.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Feldstein Soto has argued the city’s payouts were inflated by a “cascade of horrible” cases that were pending when she took office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Davis’s testimony carried with it the unstated accusation that Burnham and Baker had inflated the amount of money needed to complete the fair.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Now it’s inflating the dating value of semiconductor-industry bachelors and bachelorettes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Like other installers, Mendoza's wish list also includes an end to VAT taxes that are inflating costs for a public he says no longer needs convincing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Law Group — accusing them of inflating medical bills and forcing clients to undergo needless and expensive surgeries to inflate the value of the claim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

He was accused of inflating bubbles with this readiness to cut rates, which became known as the “Greenspan put,” a reference to a “put option” which protects the holder against loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr