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It was important doing something special for my girls because of the hard year we had during the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted them to feel like 2020 was another year spent with mom making beautiful memories, it was never with the purpose someone would find the balloon. I thought it would deflate and would just disappear somewhere in a tree nearby. – Leticia Flores-Gonzalez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You do have, potentially, speculators who are betting this bubble is going to deflate at some point. – Randy Frederick	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
What you do is, you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction, and would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company to address that discrepancy? – Cohenif Trump	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If the House votes for amnesty, then it will deflate the base, and they'll feel betrayed, and they'll stay home, and that we could lose the majority over that, and if that happens, then it's almost a certainty that Democrats would impeach President Trump. – Steve King	Found on CNN 5 years ago
With the worst of the bad news priced in following last weeks capitulation trade, a very shorted oil market has traders running for cover, we continue to believe the pressures that have created this downdraft for oil prices are beginning to deflate and subside. Aggressive short traders are now paying the price. – Chris Jarvis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have a tire pressure system where tires can deflate while we drive, we need to do that to be able to go over soft snow. – Arngrimur Hermannsson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Think of [the aneurysm] like a balloon coming off the wall of the artery. On the neck of the balloon they put a small clip in so blood can’t go into the aneurysm, which means the balloon will deflate, the more newer approach is an endovascular approach using an angiogram. They go into the balloon itself and fill the balloon with small coil so blood can’t go into the balloon, and therefore the aneurysm deflates. – Carolyn Brockington	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is a safer environment to take on some of those more hot-button issues and deflate them, in the course of everyday speechwriting, there are opportunities to deliver lines here and there, but not opportunities for extended riffs and humor of this kind. – Adam Frankel	Found on CNN 9 years ago

It was important doing something special for my girls because of the hard year we had during the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted them to feel like 2020 was another year spent with mom making beautiful memories, it was never with the purpose someone would find the balloon. I thought it would deflate and would just disappear somewhere in a tree nearby.

– Leticia Flores-Gonzalez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You do have, potentially, speculators who are betting this bubble is going to deflate at some point.

– Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

What you do is, you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction, and would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company to address that discrepancy?

– Cohenif Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If the House votes for amnesty, then it will deflate the base, and they'll feel betrayed, and they'll stay home, and that we could lose the majority over that, and if that happens, then it's almost a certainty that Democrats would impeach President Trump.

– Steve King

Found on CNN
5 years ago

With the worst of the bad news priced in following last weeks capitulation trade, a very shorted oil market has traders running for cover, we continue to believe the pressures that have created this downdraft for oil prices are beginning to deflate and subside. Aggressive short traders are now paying the price.

– Chris Jarvis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have a tire pressure system where tires can deflate while we drive, we need to do that to be able to go over soft snow.

– Arngrimur Hermannsson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Think of [the aneurysm] like a balloon coming off the wall of the artery. On the neck of the balloon they put a small clip in so blood can’t go into the aneurysm, which means the balloon will deflate, the more newer approach is an endovascular approach using an angiogram. They go into the balloon itself and fill the balloon with small coil so blood can’t go into the balloon, and therefore the aneurysm deflates.

– Carolyn Brockington

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is a safer environment to take on some of those more hot-button issues and deflate them, in the course of everyday speechwriting, there are opportunities to deliver lines here and there, but not opportunities for extended riffs and humor of this kind.

– Adam Frankel

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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