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She's always wanted to go ballooning.
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The package extended the belt-tightening path South Africa has been on since 2018, when President Cyril Ramaphosa took over a fiscally strained by ballooning budget shortfalls, rising budget shortfalls and a cascade of credit rating cuts.
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 9 Mar. 2026
Then a lungful of contracting air, followed by a ballooning rush of sound.
—Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
Big Tech stocks have been underperforming for months due to concerns about ballooning spending on artificial intelligence and a rotation into sectors that tend to do well in an expanding economy.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
It’s been tracked by the culture department of the Los Angeles Times as a permanent beat, with special attention paid to the ballooning costs.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 9 Mar. 2026
Then a lungful of contracting air, followed by a ballooning rush of sound.
—Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
Big Tech stocks have been underperforming for months due to concerns about ballooning spending on artificial intelligence and a rotation into sectors that tend to do well in an expanding economy.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
It’s been tracked by the culture department of the Los Angeles Times as a permanent beat, with special attention paid to the ballooning costs.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
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“Ballooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ballooning. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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