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Example sentences for: inflating

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Even the Pentagon, which has long featherbedded its budget by inflating the Moscow threat, has largely stopped pretending that Russia can endanger U.S. military interests.
There's a "Heroes" column about the reporter at Chicago magazine who exposed the Beardstown Ladies for inflating the returns of their investment club.
However, men with normal PSA and DRE results did not undergo biopsy, thus potentially inflating estimates for specificity.
Probably inflating his own role, KSM says he and a small group of colleagues, including Yousef and Wali Khan, were among the earliest advocates of attacking the United States.
Instead, capital has gone to property investment, inflating asset prices and making the city the most expensive in the world.