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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inflate .
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Examples
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You know, for instance, this is a beautiful container for asthma medicine that kind of inflates itself when it's time for you to take the medicine.
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You know, for instance, this is a beautiful container for asthma medicine that kind of inflates itself when it's time for you to take the medicine.
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You know, for instance, this is a beautiful container for asthma medicine that kind of inflates itself when it's time for you to take the medicine.
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Of course, he has 28 strikeouts and zero walks against opposing pitchers, so that kind of inflates the numbers a little bit, but still, you'd think that someone like, I dunno, San Diego could've used him for nothing.
Lookout Landing Jeff Sullivan 2010
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Of course, he has 28 strikeouts and zero walks against opposing pitchers, so that kind of inflates the numbers a little bit, but still, you'd think that someone like, I dunno, San Diego could've used him for nothing.
Lookout Landing 2010
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"spends our way out" of this mess as it "inflates" the battered credit markets ...... putting us even further into debt.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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It seems to me that this inflates the cost of each job created by a factor of 10.
Job-Creation Arithmetic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Failure to do so unnecessarily inflates the tax rate required.
No Entitlements Crisis?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My point is: Sure, last-minute spending will go on in large private-sector organisations, but it is less of a concern because consumers can choose whether to pay if it inflates the costs of whatever these organisations are selling.
Government Incentives, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We have saddled the population with massive amounts of debt that inflates the value of everything beyond any tangible reality and delivered another bout of false hope.
Steven Bulwa: The Market Is in Bubble Mode Again Steven Bulwa 2011
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