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“Experience shows that it is not wise to trust human cupidity where it has the opportunity to aggrandize itself at the expense of others,” they wrote.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

“There was never looking for credit, never looking to aggrandize himself,” Rendell told AP.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Mr. King admitted that the story was a fabrication aimed to aggrandize the sorrowful childhood of Larry Zeiger.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2021

It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

About 1323 Louis had secured the mark of Brandenburg for his son Louis, and he was eager to aggrandize his family in other directions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

With Iowa fully in the rearview mirror, expect to hear a variation on the phrase “Iowa picks corn, New Hampshire picks presidents,” a favorite local slogan that aggrandizes the state’s role in the nominating process.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College, said the pamphlet aggrandizes Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the God-given right to expand across North America.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022

An army of female dancers aggrandizes her divadom, and, as one of her lead choreographers told the Times, “everything,” everything, “is choreographed to a T.”

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2021

It seems like, among other things a miserable mindset, one that aggrandizes your ego but withers your soul.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

He shows that the progress of science enriches, aggrandizes, and elevates the imagination.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

This aggrandized, conceited movement makes it neither a priority nor a concern worthy of more than lip service.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2021

He did everything to feel aggrandized and powerful.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2020

And would the predictable reaction have been helpful, or only further aggrandized terrorism and divided society?

From US News ● Oct. 26, 2016

I think it’s fascinating that, as your role aggrandized there, you took on some of the natural roles for a talented IT executive but you also listed corporate strategy as one of your responsibilities.

From Forbes ● Jun. 16, 2014

The fathers whose sons had played merited a more aggrandized status in the fraternity of older men who queued along the passageway.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It’s really about promoting or aggrandizing him as an individual,” Richard Briffault, professor of legislation at Columbia Law School, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

It seems aggrandizing and selfish to dwell on it when there are many people who lost everything in the course of that single day.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

His self-made story is tantalizing enough but Western media can’t resist aggrandizing the hardship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Fatherhood for me rests somewhere between selfless sacrifice and aggrandizing self-preservation.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

It was a sickeningly aggrandizing clump that was exacerbating itself within her stomach; and it made her doubt the efficacy of the plan.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills