inflated

Example Sentences

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That way we’ll avoid the LA28 traffic, limited parking and inflated prices.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The companies’ intricate web of cross-shareholdings artificially inflated their share prices.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Tariffs inflated his expenses, but so have crop failures, higher rents and rising labor costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

That resulted a small denominator within the P/E ratio that artificially inflated the profitability metric.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

He put the empty popcorn bag to his full lips, inflated it, and waited, his eyes gleaming with reflected Technicolor.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole