become bloated

Have they become bloated and inefficient, with their high swipe fees and exorbitant interest rates and empty promises of free tickets?

And there’s a direct line between the unoriginality of the business — things TV critics complain about, like reboots and intellectual-property adaptations and plain old derivative stories — and the ease with which entertainment could become bloated by machine-generated mediocrity.

Republicans say the changes are necessary because welfare rolls have become bloated since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Investors fear that multidivisional businesses become bloated bureaucracies where each division is underperforming and hiring the right employees is challenging, with resources poorly allocated.

Some conservatives have increasingly argued that military spending, particularly funding that goes to contractors, has become bloated and wasteful, a view that mirrors that of many Democrats.