grandiose
Example Sentences
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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
"The grandiose promises of destroying Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran are not coming true," said Dahlia Scheindlin, a Policy Fellow at the Mitvim Institute, a think tank focused on Israeli foreign policy.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
His grandiose persona rubbed many the wrong way early on, earning him a villain label.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Selfish and grandiose though Beck’s obsession may have been, it wasn’t frivolous.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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