ballooned
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Adjusted earnings per share in the September quarter ballooned 6,913% to $52.60 and exceeded expectations for $46.67, although the company flagged that the percentage is “not a meaningful figure.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Between the first round on October 4 and the runoff on Sunday, the channel's following ballooned from 60,000 people to almost 11 million.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
It ballooned in great dark rolls above, and beneath it drew a long trailing skirt of rain, and as they looked the cloud rumbled and flashed fire.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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