puffed (up)

past tense of puff (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffed (up)
Verb
  • The Spring-Summer 2026 show opened with a suit, the jacket cropped at the waist and the sleeves rolled up.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • After some apparent delays, Speed’s massive tour bus, trailed by a convoy of black SUVs, rolled up to the entrance of the Coliseum, where it was greeted with a rah-rah routine from University of Southern California cheerleaders and a drone filming his big entrance from above.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cellar’s statement came days after detransition activist Chloe Cole’s characterization of the story blew up online and attracted the attention of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
  • That blew up when Primeau was claimed by the Maple Leafs when the Hurricanes tried to assign him to AHL Chicago.
    Cory Lavalette, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At low concentrations, adsorption increased gradually, typical of monolayer adsorption, where molecules form a single layer on the surface.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • While global life expectancy is up, youth and young adult mortality rates increased between 2011 and 2023, according to the report.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its supply is fixed, so it can’t be inflated at will.
    Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Traders, fearful of missing out on the rally, are piling into equities in a way reminiscent of the 1990s, when a feeding frenzy on early internet companies inflated the market right before the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The tussle over rare earths precedes the current administration; China for years has built up near-total control of the minerals as part of its wider industrial policy.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Still betting on this legacy, which has been built up so well in the past.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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“Puffed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffed%20%28up%29. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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