self-aggrandizing
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Mr. Robb’s attunement makes him a master geographer of the oldest and newest forms of life on a “sodden, self-aggrandizing island outpost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
I’m not chasing commerce and without being self-aggrandizing, I don’t need to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2024
That students aren’t allowed to ever be off-message and self-aggrandizing?
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
Beginning in the late 2010s, Brian Valmond started shining a light on stories that are often shaded by secrecy, exaggeration, self-protection and self-aggrandizing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
It was a practical expression of the self-aggrandizing impulse that inspired other megastructures in the new Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the renovated Temple of Apollo at Didyma, or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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