inflation
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State salaries — often the equivalent of $15 to $30 a month — have been completely overtaken by soaring food prices driven by scarcity and inflation.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
The day’s big headline focused on prices, with the release of the consumer price index for March showing inflation heating up.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Instead, he expects hiccups along the way, elevated oil prices and U.S. inflation to stay higher for longer.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Consumer inflation is now up 3.3% in the last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing inflation
Human Geography - High School
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