Sample Sentences forinflation (editor-reviewed)
inflation as in: economic inflation
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The report shows inflation-adjusted dollars.inflation = adjusted for a decrease in the value of a dollar over time
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Most economist think a little inflation (perhaps a percentage or two) is good for the economy, but all economists agree that a lot of inflation is harmful.inflation = when the price of everything increases because money is less valuable
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Parties every week, balls, banquets, beautiful girls, waltzing, dinners, a huge house, etc. After Grandpa died, most of the money was lost, and after the Great War and inflation there was nothing left at all. (source)inflation = increase in prices
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Rapid inflation puts a lot of shock and pressure on it.† (source)
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"It's a great hedge on inflation," he says with authority.† (source)
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Yes, economics-history, theory, prices, inflation, why not?† (source)
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Throughout the U.S. we find that the aging population (living on restricted and/or shrinking incomes in an inflation-prone world), along with reduced government support of education, conflicts with the needs of young people who live in a society that demands educational excellence even while promoting passive acceptance of mass-media culture.† (source)
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It's all part of the damnable inflationary pattern that's designed to cheat people on pensions and with fixed incomes and so forth.† (source)
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Did these donations take place before hyperinflation?† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperinflation means extreme or excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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Inflation, you know.† (source)
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And the facts, as he had publicly stated, were that Russia intended to defeat the United States by scaring us into an inflationary, socialistic depression, and not by tossing missiles at us.† (source)
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I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments!† (source)
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Inasmuch as a tremendous spurt in the production of the Western silver mines had caused its value in relation to gold to shrink considerably, the single purpose of the silver forces was clear, simple and appealing—easy, inflationary money.† (source)
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Now there's wreckage, and inflation, and moral collapse.† (source)
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They were spendable money and never did drop to zero but were inflationary and exchange reflected it increasingly; new government was spending money it did not have.† (source)
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So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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He freed the straps, found the inflation cylinder.
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inflation = to fill with air
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