balloon

Anya said in English, before the girls joined classmates playing with a huge red, yellow and blue balloon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

During the subprime-mortgage crisis, some ARM borrowers buckled under balloon payments when the initial fixed term of the loan expired.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Many current systems use superconducting circuits, but these are highly sensitive to electromagnetic noise and stray electrical charges - similar to the static electricity that can make hair cling to a balloon.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits bill to balloon while not offering young people opportunities.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

In the murky and curious period from early February to June 2007, the subprime mortgage market resembled a giant helium balloon, bound to earth by a dozen or so big Wall Street firms.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

His rallies have featured massive US flags and giant inflatable balloons of Trump, who has not endorsed the senator, but has said he is "very closely" watching the election.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

His son, Altamash, began performing with him as a teenager but now works decorating parties with balloons.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I grab a string of balloons and wrap them around Matt, spinning him in circles on the dance floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The scale of the financial impact depends to some degree on whether civil courts treat AI agents like hot air balloons or trains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

My arms have grown wings and I’m almost afraid of going up into the sky, as though I held a couple of captive balloons in my fists.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

When Puerto Rico’s debt crisis ballooned into the largest governmental default in U.S. history, Congress stepped in with an unprecedented solution.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2026

OTTAWA—Canada’s goods-trade surplus with the world ballooned to the largest in more than four years as tariff front-running drove a jump in exports to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The inspector general’s office was created in 2022 to oversee the authority as spending ballooned past its original budget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The note also makes the point that U.S. interest payments as a percentage of GDP are roughly 4.1% whereas in the late 90s they had ballooned to a figure approaching 5%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

At once the curtains filled with air and ballooned giddily into the room.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

When Anthropic gathered public-market investors recently to whet their appetites for its initial public offering, executives highlighted ballooning revenues and rapidly advancing technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Interest costs on around $32 trillion in publicly held US debt have been ballooning in recent years, and climbing bond yields have sparked further concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Intrafamily loans are among the biggest pieces of a ballooning support network between parents and grown children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Even as some American manufacturers have benefited as their foreign competitors encounter higher barriers, others struggle with ballooning costs and persistent uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

When winter arrived, I pulled Mother’s dress in worry each time lightning belted the ballooning clouds, spilling rain on the fields.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat