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She's always wanted to go ballooning.
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There’s a ballooning opportunity globally for developers to tap into this market and ameliorate that disconnect.
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Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2026
And all the forecasts, including the CBO’s, conclude that such an outcome leads to unsustainable debts, deficits, and especially ballooning interest expense leaving less and less money to fund our fast growing obligations for the likes of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
Maybe, but my mind kept hot-air-ballooning away to my fellow-cultists, who were facing their own spiritual co-op boards.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s no way to develop this group over the next four years without contracts ballooning unsustainably; and that same group lacks any of the star power necessary to lift the Bulls out of their current mediocrity.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
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Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2026
And all the forecasts, including the CBO’s, conclude that such an outcome leads to unsustainable debts, deficits, and especially ballooning interest expense leaving less and less money to fund our fast growing obligations for the likes of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
Maybe, but my mind kept hot-air-ballooning away to my fellow-cultists, who were facing their own spiritual co-op boards.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s no way to develop this group over the next four years without contracts ballooning unsustainably; and that same group lacks any of the star power necessary to lift the Bulls out of their current mediocrity.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Ballooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ballooning. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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