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.
is ballooning
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present progressiveof balloon (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Its role is ballooning across all the less-visceral chores that militaries tackle, particularly in giving priority to intelligence for selecting targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The obesity crisis in India is ballooning - and the seemingly harmless pot belly may be a far bigger villain than we think.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
The home-delivered meals supplement his diet at a time when skyrocketing inflation is ballooning his grocery budget to $200 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Debt is ballooning in low-income countries, and climate change and disasters like the devastating flooding in Pakistan wipe out growth and add costs.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2023
His most ambitious achievement is ballooning, to which he owes a fame in the Quarter only less than Mr. Square's.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
