grandiose
Example Sentences
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While Elon Musk asks investors to gamble $80 billion on his grandiose promises about SpaceX, it’s worth taking another look at the grandiose promises he was making just a year ago.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
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
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
He never forgot the grandiose, terrible sight of that tiny child entering the world, coated with all her bloody membranes, between the shrieks of her mother and the cries of the women bustling around her.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing grandiose
Monster
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