inflates

present tense third-person singular of inflate
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Recent Examples of inflates That determination is sent back to the device, which inflates or deflates balloons with air to assist in raising or lowering the arm. Mack Degeurin Aug 21, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflates
Verb
  • But Musk would get those shares only if the value of Tesla stock increases significantly in coming years.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But sending soldiers who are not well versed in policing increases the likelihood of mistakes.
    Luke William Hunt, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Coaching accelerates trust, sharpens skills, and keeps teams engaged even when separated by time zones and thousands of miles.
    Matthew C. Meade, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The missile’s low-G launch from the cannon avoids the need for hardened components, while a rocket motor accelerates it to low supersonic speeds.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The butter, which has honey in it, raises a serious concern.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Exercise itself raises body temperature because of all the additional heat produced by the cellular work involved.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, even if the AL and NL were to stay, realignment is going to have to happen anyway once MLB expands to 32 teams.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The film expands on the novel Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa, which in turn is based on the real life of Vivaldi who was a Roman Catholic priest and taught at the Ospedale della Pietà for almost 30 years.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Buy before his price rises multiple rounds.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Each October, when the river swells with rainwater, workers pause, move their tools and wares away, and only return once the waters recede.
    Faye Bradley, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The difference between a story that swells into something bigger than the writer or collapses when the pen is no longer in their hand.
    Ken Polk, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Inflates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflates. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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