balloon
Example Sentences
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A system of patronage led to the ballooning of PdVSA’s payroll.
"I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves," he tells BBC News.
From BBC
Spending on semiconductors has ballooned, with $47.5 billion raised in 2024, largely channeled through the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, dubbed the Big Fund.
U.K. stocks have outperformed their European and American counterparts lately, despite some worries about stubborn inflation and ballooning government borrowing costs.
From Barron's
Immediately I rose higher, my lungs buoying me up like balloons.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
