ballooned

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As the housing bubble ballooned, the face value of those swaps rose to a tidy $62 trillion.

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  • Smoke poured from the bottle, swirled into a whirlwind, ballooned, then coalesced into the figures of the Good Magician and the griffin. —  The Source of Magic
  • "Last time we ballooned, the Hoorah nabbed us," Dor pointed out. —  Castle Roogna
  • On either side of the moon, seven tiny suns flashed into existence, ballooned, and enveloped the Covenant battle groups. —  Eric Nylund - HALO 4 - Ghosts of Onyx (v1.0)
  • While housing prices ballooned, affluent consumers had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • But as the blogs have ballooned, the number of QQ editors has stayed the same, and some of us, like myself, are dedicating fewer hours, not more, to "scanning hundreds of websites" that might provide material for QuakerQuaker. —  The Good Raised Up
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