as in affectation
the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the case
the personal essay accompanying his college application was devoid of the inflation and self-aggrandizement that all too often is found in such writings
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Recent Examples of inflation
Such data have supplanted inflation reports, which used to be the most important for Wall Street every month but have waned as inflation seems to be heading toward the Fed’s target of 2%.
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Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Between 1991 and 2024, the costs for child care rose at nearly twice the pace of overall inflation.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Harris has sought, at times, to distance herself from Biden, billing herself as the change candidate for voters tired of inflation.
—Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
Moreover, as the City of Saint Paul faces a $19.4 million inflation challenge, akin to a 10% increase in property taxes, there is growing concern about the sustainability of further tax hikes.
—B Kyle, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2024
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Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Between 1991 and 2024, the costs for child care rose at nearly twice the pace of overall inflation.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Harris has sought, at times, to distance herself from Biden, billing herself as the change candidate for voters tired of inflation.
—Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
Moreover, as the City of Saint Paul faces a $19.4 million inflation challenge, akin to a 10% increase in property taxes, there is growing concern about the sustainability of further tax hikes.
—B Kyle, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflation
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His eccentricities — once easily dismissed as the affectations of a lonely man — read maniacal.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Strangely, the results come off as a directorial affectation, a willful cramping of her style.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
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Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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But in his youth lies the reason for anonymity and pretense, Hoback claims.Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
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Liberals, apparently, got up close to voters under the pretense of handing out food and water.Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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The past month in Lebanon, like the past year in Gaza, has demonstrated that Israel’s leaders have no idealistic pretensions about establishing a new political order in Lebanon or in the Strip.Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
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The chief theme, of course, is art itself, which wafts into pretension all too easily.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
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Elsewhere is a bar/parlor room, as well as an inviting primary suite that comes complete with a Juliette balcony, a walk-in closet, and a luxe bath flaunting dual vanities and a large shower.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Grand suites have separate in-room dining tables and some even have bathtubs and dual-sink stone vanities.Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Inflation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflation. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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