deflate
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Sinking an early birdie on the fifth got the crowd going but starting the back half with bogeys on 10 and 12 threatened to deflate the mood.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Price increases for all the stuff needed to flesh out AI technology are unlikely to deflate anytime soon.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
The longer it takes for supply to return, the longer it will take oil prices to deflate from current levels.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
“The great hurt and fear for folks that steward the farmworker movement now is that this news will deflate the struggle that is so essential and is so hard,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Her shoulders dropped and she seemed to deflate right before my eyes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
If the AI bubble ever deflates, these energy companies with no revenue have the farthest to fall and little in the way of a cushion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
It deconstructs the artifice of a rock show, making The 1975 seem more human - but equally, it deflates the excitement of watching a band in full flow.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
But I think that greatly deflates the more potent message that Jonze was trying to deliver.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025
A familiar resolution deflates the status the movie had earned up until that point as a wildly unpredictable work of trashy cleverness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
The striped parachute wrinkles and deflates in my hands.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
When the skin has collapsed into your palm like a deflated balloon, you lift the box grater and discover an almost implausible amount of ruby pulp underneath it.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Tracy said being unable to appeal against Harris's sentence - of which she will spend 40% locked up before being released - had left them "deflated".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The subsequent years were some of the worst in market history after the tech bubble deflated.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Elsewhere, steel structures appear variously deflated, vacuum-sealed, flopped, melted and wrinkled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“I didn’t mean to,” I say again, but my voice and my body and my soul are deflated.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
His premiership, in the eyes of many on his own side, has been deflating for months.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Then they would promptly sidestep or bet against it, deflating the bubble before it could expand anywhere near the bursting point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
After that deflating breakup, she had decided to describe herself honestly on a dating app as “wordy, nerdy and kind of sturdy,” and not a lot of people responded, but one did, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
The K-shaped economy just widened: AI is deflating its own supply chain.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
I press my lips flat on the cold mouthpiece and blow softly—not enough, and the note leaks out, like a tire deflating.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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