swollen
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The budget deficit has already swollen close to the planned target for the whole year.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
"Cells lacking the system lost their normal rectangular-like cell shape and instead became round and swollen," Springstein explains.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
The company got a bump from the car-buying boom of 2021 and 2022, but its auto revenue underperformed overall light-vehicle production in the years after, as customers sat on swollen inventories.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
My right arm had woken me up a few hours earlier, burning and swollen past the point where it even looked like an arm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The chupacabras’s mordida had left three ugly lacerations two inches above her ankle, on the outside of her leg, so both her ankle and calf were swollen to twice their normal size.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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