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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

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

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Chunky deals with big customers are also helping inflate revenue and backlogs, like the more than $100 billion 10-year contract that AWS signed with Anthropic in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The leaders had agreed with Lee Scoresby that when they reached the next stopping place, they would inflate his balloon and he would spy from the air.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

"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

LightCounting’s reason is that almost every transceiver component is now scarce and customers have started double ordering, which inflates backlogs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

"Dominance of a few tech corporations in public infrastructure limits... our flexibility, threatens our security and inflates our software costs," Schroedter told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

My need to escape inflates exponentially and the beeping on the phone is getting annoying, so I walk over and hang it up.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

There’s nothing inherently wrong with guesstimating economic opportunities, but the more prominent, inflated, or specific they are, the worse of a sign it can be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Public golf courses belong to the public, and residents shouldn’t have to compete with brokers buying up tee times just to turn around and sell them at inflated prices,” he said in a statement Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The club were accused of a wide range of rule breaches which centred around claims that they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent football's financial rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

He inflated Navatek’s payroll to amass loans of $13 million, according to a federal indictment.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Trunchbull's whole body and face seemed to swell up as though she were being inflated by a bicycle-pump.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

They included artificially inflating revenue by more than £900m through "sham" sponsorship deals.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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

I can’t bring myself to give a full answer with a balloon of fear steadily inflating in my ribs.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer