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The employee allegedly colluded with a supplier to inflate prices, with the two sharing the excess money after the company paid the invoices.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

There’s no movie star to take charge, and Greengrass doesn’t inflate the passengers into larger-than-life heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Between 2016 and 2021, Evergrande and Xu as its boss "violated national laws by engaging in continuous, large-scale financial fraud and other means to inflate assets and conceal liabilities", the court said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

It feels like someone is trying to inflate you, but there’s nowhere for the air or pressure or whatever it is to go.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

"It inflates the entire sector - it inflates the Premier League, the Bundesliga, the French League, and eventually us as well."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Importantly for all those planning a shindig, the balloon inflates as easily as a conventional one.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

The bottleneck that inflates Nvidia’s margins also inflates the cost of building the infrastructure that generates them.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

In other words, asking about food decisions piece by piece naturally inflates the total.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

A gust of wind inflates the curtain, first blowing it into the room and then sucking it back against the screen.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Sharp and short-lived sell-offs were common as the dotcom bubble inflated, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Was it excessive for Jews to buy land, at fair or often inflated prices, from absentee landlords in Beirut and Damascus who were glad to sell malarial swamps?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Some clubs who did not receive payments from City could also argue that the spending of money from their "inflated" accounts compromised their chances.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The flesh above his right eye jumped out as though it had been inflated.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The commission, in contrast, used the word "sham" eight times when describing City's dealings, including artificially inflating revenue by more than £900m through "sham" deals.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The company has said it stands by its ratings — two former employees are suing it as they said they were pressured into inflating ratings to attract business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

He was accused of inflating bubbles with this readiness to cut rates, which became known as the “Greenspan put,” a reference to a “put option” which protects the holder against loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Since 2021, GM has generated about $53 billion in free cash flow, despite Covid, inflating prices, tariffs, and ever-changing EV policies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Her breathing sounded like a crackly paper bag inflating and deflating, but she spoke with firmness and clarity.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan