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"I was a party planner for over 10 years and ... I was very sustainably focused. The final stumbling block for me was the balloon waste," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

His required monthly payment doesn’t cover the $500 added in monthly interest, causing his balance to balloon over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

We’ve already seen Big Tech names like Meta and Google erase user data and impose limits on virtual storage as A.I. expenditures balloon and memory becomes more expensive.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

During the visit, guards saw Randall try to pass a blue balloon to her son, a deputy probation officer wrote in the report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Eventually, though, Markie’s friends got called home for supper and I was looking down at one grubby kid with a limp balloon trailing behind him.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Fans gathered at the park in recent days to pay tribute to Parton, dropping off flowers, candles and balloons.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The final straw came when she realised "balloons were non-biodegradable" even though the packaging said they would say break up "at the rate of an oak leaf".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We were putting out thousands of party balloons every single week," she said, but they were only there "for a matter of hours simply to be popped and thrown in the trash".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

"Regular balloons are treated with a process to make them strong and stretchy," said 29-year-old co-inventor Juliana Cumming, a PhD researcher at Imperial.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

“I never had a birthday party with balloons when I was a kid—so these are for me, too!”

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

The birth-control campaign was designed to control the territory's population, which had ballooned since the 1950s, aided by modernisation and better healthcare.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Meanwhile, its cost has ballooned from the original estimate of $1.95 billion to a projected $3.3 billion, at least.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

But this financial year it has ballooned to $54bn and the scheme now supports more than 700,000 people.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

It had ballooned to well over $20 billion under management, reaching the size of other well-known hedge funds that took decades to build.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

He didn’t apologize, he just stood still for a moment, fear ballooned on his face, openmouthed and unable to find that condescending glare down the slope of his nose he usually found for me.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Created by Exclusive Ballooning in partnership with Aardman, it combines two of the city's best-known exports - animation and ballooning.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Fed up with ballooning costs, companies big and small are starting to use lower-priced models, including some built in China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Some admissions advisers say cutting supplemental essays will only add to the ballooning ranks of students who get deferred and wait-listed as young people apply to more colleges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Burnham has pledged fiscal discipline and to reduce the country's ballooning welfare bill, having already sought to calm markets by committing to the government's current borrowing limits.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

I tugged my boots on and tucked the ballooning black fabric into the tops.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan