aggrandize
Example Sentences
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“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
Her disgruntled co-writer, Lisa DePaulo, also filed a breach of contract suit, claiming therein that she’d been instructed to aggrandize Pirro’s “role in the story at the expense of the truth.”
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2017
Why should the Gibeonites our Land engross, And aggrandize their Fortunes with our loss?
From Selected Poems (1685-1700) by Tutchin, John
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