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n. - Flying in a bag of silk or other tough light material shaped usually like a sphere, made nonporous, and filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air

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  • Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood.
  • If this ballooning is left untreated, it may continue to weaken, burst and bleed into the brain.
  • High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low.
  • The flipside of the coin is namely ballooning public-sector debt.
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