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Example sentences for: inflating

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Instead, capital has gone to property investment, inflating asset prices and making the city the most expensive in the world.
There's a "Heroes" column about the reporter at Chicago magazine who exposed the Beardstown Ladies for inflating the returns of their investment club.
8572 and then inflating the Canadian value to a 2000 Canadian dollar values a state cost of $2,111 for blindness was estimated.
The NYT front notes that the price of oil, which has nearly doubled since last winter, is inflating gas, heating, and airline ticket prices.
Whereas the cynical view of the criminal trial was that a black jury ignored its instructions by acquitting Simpson in order to sock it to the Los Angeles police, the cynical view of the civil trial is that a white jury ignored its instructions by inflating the compensatory-damage figure in order to sock it to Simpson.