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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffed (up)
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Its balloon sleeves can be worn long or rolled up for a more elevated look.
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Armando Soriano, his wife and two children traveled from the fringes of the city to a smaller Fan Fest in a plaza just a mile from where Ramírez lives, where locals rolled up to the screen before them on motorcycles and beer, tequila and snacks were sold from plastic tubs strapped to moving carts.
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One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.
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While the boys blew up our air mattresses, the horses milled around at the edge of the river.
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Through 2025, the application backlog increased, leaving it 48% higher than at the end of former President Joe Biden’s term.
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The bank said last week's hawkish Federal Open Market Committee meeting has increased uncertainty over the outlook for short-term interest rates, even as lower oil prices have eased concerns about an economic downturn.
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But, Feldman said after examining Hilcorp’s most recent data, that decline is artificially inflated by recent changes to the reporting rules, which make comparisons to previous years misleading.
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The billionaire population doubled to 291 within five years, then stretched to nearly 500 as the dot-com bubble inflated fortunes in the late 1990s.
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Fiber slows gastric emptying, making the stomach more distended.
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In his songs, the English language turned woolier and more expressionistic; musical space-time distended and stretched.
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This is the first piece of hard news for a team that had built up quite a bit of momentum in recent months.
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The most conspicuous symptom of this transition, certainly, was the contortion of the nation-state, and the resulting unravelling of political cultures built up over many decades.
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“Puffed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffed%20%28up%29. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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