Dambisa Moyo

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

Zambian Economist

Barbara Kruger

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

American Artist

Carly Fiorina

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

American Businesswoman

Steven Spielberg

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

American Director

Eric Carmen

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

American Musician

Mark Skousen

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

American Economist

Charles Dallara

The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

American Businessman

Sophocles

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Greek Poet

Frank McCourt

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Irish Author

Christina Aguilera

I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.

Used to describe the physical enlargement of objects or living things, often due to internal pressures.

Physical Expansion

'Bloat' often implies a problematic or undesirable swelling.

Negative Outcome

When something 'bloats', it suggests growth that is unplanned or not beneficial.

Unexpected Growth

In computing, 'bloat' suggests that added features make the system less efficient.

Efficiency Loss

Too many unnecessary additions can 'bloat' a system, making it too complex.

Unnecessary Complexity

Understanding 'bloat' in tech helps appreciate streamlined and user-friendly design.

Streamline Importance

'Bloat' in animals is a serious condition and requires immediate attention.

Veterinary Concern

'Bloat' can indicate a life-threatening condition in certain animals.

Health Risk

Refers to the uncomfortable fullness one may experience, typically after eating.

Discomfort Feeling

While it has medical connotations, 'bloat' is also used in everyday language.

Non-Medical Use

 than we do and sometimes that can give them that bloated look but i'd never tell one it's got a big belly because they might be best pleased can gorillas swing from trees so they can they're not amazing at it they're better than we are 100 but they are exceptionally heavy animals so they do spend a lot of their lifetime in the trees and they can climb

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 And you know, fall into the water, was rotting and bloated and floating on the river. So, we chopped it up this tapir and this is how we continued our trip. But take a good look of this engine because that engine was gone by the night. It actually fall into the river. So, I said, God this is great.

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 and this naturally leads to more gas than usual. But if you feel uncomfortable, bloated or visibly distended, this may indicate impaired movement of gas along the gastrointestinal track. It's important not to just blame certain foods for gas and bloating and then avoid them.

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 The bottom line is that everything that turns a gig into a livelihood was stripped away from an American worker. Job security, paid sick days, vacation time -- all of that went away even as the wealthy saw their net worths bloat to unprecedented,

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 - My mother was a witch. And I know that I said my favorite of her sayings was the one about the bloated monk who feared his vow of silence covered farts, but I didn't have a way with the phrase. I'm afraid that I'll word it wrong.

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 plates which protect the body of a normal-sized and it's the membrane between them that is stretched these bloated individuals are almost totally inactive so they consume very little of the honey that they hold it is drunk by

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 something is literally draining the life out of them it is the winter tick as full and bloated as its host is starving it's estimated that ticks can drain a moose calf of half its blood

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 months she came to me bloated very pill every night I come from working lie on a cold floor she lies beside me and said auntie I wish to be well I wish to go to

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 that raised me predicted, the world is in trouble. We live in a society bloated with data, yet starved for wisdom.

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 all their gods were crawling on all fours these bloated replicas of Han beetles

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