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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

In assembling it, he managed to aggrandize it.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017

Did he merely wish to aggrandize himself, to create and perpetuate his own renown, by being the greatest and the best monarch earth has ever known?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

Jackson fired back that Barrett’s approach actually aggrandizes the role of the court and elevates it over Congress.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

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

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

This ubiquitous possibility of the Mark's occurring—the ignorance of the archer where his gifted arrow will strike—ennobles, aggrandizes his person and his work.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 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 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

But there is no noblesse oblige or courtly love, no dragons, witchy women or aggrandizing British accents.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

La Salle, on his return to Canada, actively set about aggrandizing his new possession.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John