grandiose
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It’s always been about the grandiose dreams of Donald Trump.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
The United States is this year's host of the Group of 20 major economies and Trump has promised a grandiose summit in December in his adopted home state of Florida.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
His threats and boasts are laced with grandiose language and delivered in a booming, British-accented voice.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
It’s all gotten too ego-driven, too strangely dependent on the magic of personality, too vainglorious and, yes, grandiose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
However grandiose some of our individual ambitions may have been, nobody on Hall’s team ever really considered going for the summit without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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