inflated
Example Sentences
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The more than £900m by which the independent commission found the club had "inflated" its accounts was not all spent on transfer fees.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Being carless also spares us inflation in maintenance and insurance, and we can’t drive to malls and their inflated temptations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He inflated Navatek’s payroll to amass loans of $13 million, according to a federal indictment.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Now that he’d admitted it to someone outside his family, it was like a balloon inflated inside him, waiting to be popped.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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