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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

Players could earn larger rewards by continuing to inflate the balloon, but they could lose everything from that round if it burst.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The simplest way to escape this debt burden is to do what the U.S. did after 1945, and inflate it away.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

"The primary use case for a humanoid robot today is to walk on stage and artificially inflate your share price," he says.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

An electric air pump varoomed to life to inflate an enormous movie screen that rose beside her like a giant gorilla balloon outside a used-car lot.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

The main problem with “A League of His Own” is Mr. Stein’s willingness to take at face value Spalding’s claims in his 1911 book, “America’s National Game,” which systematically inflates Spalding’s role in events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Ticketmaster and Live Nation have repeatedly faced criticism from those who say the firm artificially inflates the cost of tickets with fees and service charges.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

As long as capital investment continues to grow and liquidity in the financial system remains ample, investors should have plenty of time to continue riding the AI bubble as it inflates, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025

And then he smiles at me again, and I swear my heart inflates into one huge red balloon.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

No, it isn’t inflation in ticket prices or buyers’ inflated sense of their lousy chances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“That’s an inflated promise. But I will tell you, we will build, and I will tell you, there will be more Californians who own a home,” Becerra said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

He asserted that these were inflated by his co-author to generate book sales.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

“The bulge looked huge, inflated like a balloon,” remembered Mindy Brugman, who came to Coldwater II with another scientist, Carolyn Driedger, on Saturday to train David Johnston on the ruby laser ranger.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Now it’s inflating the dating value of semiconductor-industry bachelors and bachelorettes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Law Group — accusing them of inflating medical bills and forcing clients to undergo needless and expensive surgeries to inflate the value of the claim.

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

UniCredit's reporting of a gradually increasing uptake of its offer prompted accusations from Commerzbank that it was artificially inflating the figures.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

This is crucial, because in the late fifteenth century the cost of a dowry is rapidly inflating: the size of a respectable dowry is growing wildly each year.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day