balloon
noun
a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
ballooning
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present participleof balloon.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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a word derived from
balloon.
balloonnouna bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
Example Sentences
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Interest costs on around $32 trillion in publicly held US debt have been ballooning in recent years, and climbing bond yields have sparked further concerns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
More than that, the ballooning numbers of athletes and officials meant there were not enough beds for everyone.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Roy, 34, campaigns with an aura of sunny progressive pragmatism, arguing that the city can rein in ballooning liability in part by tackling its vexing infrastructure issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even if Beijing allows faster appreciation of the tightly-controlled currency, that alone won’t be enough to curb China’s ballooning trade surplus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A cocoon of bubbles spun around my body as I plunged down and bobbed back up to the surface, my T-shirt ballooning away from my chest.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
