inflate
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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
"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
Rising construction costs also inflate the expenses to repair defects, leading plaintiffs to claim larger damages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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
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
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
Positioning him as a pioneering visionary, it also inflates Man Ray’s significance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
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
Whatever was in her throat got bigger, like one of those foam bath pellets that inflates in water.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
He said that his role had been inflated into something it was not, and focused largely on the investigation, not on the relationship.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Darker forces are at play in the industry, as inflated costs, mass layoffs, the good old concept of ens**ttification and the AI tech bubble threaten to transform what gaming even means.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Employment peaked in 2023 at 684,000, when pandemic-era checks and parts shortages inflated profits across the auto industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
From the Fifa Peace Prize, to the vastly inflated ticket prices at the World Cup, to the Club World Cup, Infantino's tenure has been increasingly controversial.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
They usually featured easy credit and inflated prices.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
Since 2021, GM has generated about $53 billion in free cash flow, despite Covid, inflating prices, tariffs, and ever-changing EV policies.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Last month, officials in New York and New Jersey officially launched an investigation, with Fifa facing allegations of "artificially inflating prices" and "misleading fans" over ticket sales.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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
Immediately, the horned toad jumped out from her side and took a big angry breath, inflating its round tummy.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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