aggrandize
Example Sentences
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Yet there are none of the trappings of schools that aggrandize the M.B.A. aspirant as a master of the universe in waiting: grand atriums, leather-chaired lounges, chandelier-festooned ceilings.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023
“There was never looking for credit, never looking to aggrandize himself,” Rendell told AP.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Furthermore, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court refused to allow the lower court to aggrandize itself by apportioning, like a legislature, the $465 million to particular uses.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
All motives of a religious kind were absorbed in his prevailing passion to aggrandize the French monarchy.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
