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The league said the club arranged sham commercial deals from 2009 to the 2017-18 season to artificially inflate revenues by over 900 million GBP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

There’s no movie star to take charge, and Greengrass doesn’t inflate the passengers into larger-than-life heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Between 2016 and 2021, Evergrande and Xu as its boss "violated national laws by engaging in continuous, large-scale financial fraud and other means to inflate assets and conceal liabilities", the court said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

This cosmic egg would explode, inflate, and create the space-time of our universe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Buying SPX puts as general portfolio protection inflates the VIX, while buying individual equity puts keeps the equity-only put-call ratios high.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 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

"Dominance of a few tech corporations in public infrastructure limits... our flexibility, threatens our security and inflates our software costs," Schroedter told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

The gases in the rumen get trapped and the rumen inflates like a balloon until it presses against its lungs.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Investigations alleged that South African supplier Ren-Form grossly inflated prices and subsequently paid hundreds of millions of rand to a company linked to him.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

City continue to deny any wrongdoing and have lodged an appeal against the findings in the Premier League's report that stated the club falsely inflated commercial revenues by £830m through "sham" contracts.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

There’s nothing inherently wrong with guesstimating economic opportunities, but the more prominent, inflated, or specific they are, the worse of a sign it can be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Public golf courses belong to the public, and residents shouldn’t have to compete with brokers buying up tee times just to turn around and sell them at inflated prices,” he said in a statement Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The vending machine in the laundromat hasn't worked for months, so I walk across the street to the gas station—the one that: leaves its giant inflated Santa Claus up year-round—to get a bottle of juice.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

The company has said it stands by its ratings — two former employees are suing it as they said they were pressured into inflating ratings to attract business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Wazne, one of Berri Brothers’ owners, said using low prices to keep a constant flow of cost-conscious customers helps his business by inflating footfall to the stands’ convenience stores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The companies are suspected of inflating ice cream prices beyond increases in the cost of raw materials, even as the country faces a hot summer with record high temperatures.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Grandpop played and played, his cheeks inflating and deflating, his head rocking side to side, the sound sometimes really, really quiet, and other times piercingly loud.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds