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Example sentences for: inflating

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The NYT front notes that the price of oil, which has nearly doubled since last winter, is inflating gas, heating, and airline ticket prices.
However, men with normal PSA and DRE results did not undergo biopsy, thus potentially inflating estimates for specificity.
(Of course, it could also be 100,000 people a day looking at one page each and turning away in disgust, or it could be 50 of my aunts, uncles, and cousins busily inflating the numbers by clicking up 2,000 pages a day.)
Instead, capital has gone to property investment, inflating asset prices and making the city the most expensive in the world.
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.