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“Experience shows that it is not wise to trust human cupidity where it has the opportunity to aggrandize itself at the expense of others,” they wrote.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

“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

About 1323 Louis had secured the mark of Brandenburg for his son Louis, and he was eager to aggrandize his family in other directions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College, said the pamphlet aggrandizes Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the God-given right to expand across North America.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022

The Amazon Prime series, which returns Friday, is a sharp, entertaining, eviscerating satire of superhero franchises and the culture that aggrandizes them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

It seems like, among other things a miserable mindset, one that aggrandizes your ego but withers your soul.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

The concept of evil being the easiest trick by which the middlebrow mind aggrandizes itself, her readers wanted Mephistopheles; but Eichmann persisted in being small.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2012

Reading aggrandizes the soul, and an enlightened friend affords consolation.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Chalamet is, of course, playing a character — an outsized version of himself, built atop the already aggrandized persona he’s become known for in his relatively short career.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

“He is not standing stoically or posed ‘heroically’ on a pedestal or being aggrandized in bronze,” Weitzman said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2018

And would the predictable reaction have been helpful, or only further aggrandized terrorism and divided society?

From US News ● Oct. 26, 2016

I think it’s fascinating that, as your role aggrandized there, you took on some of the natural roles for a talented IT executive but you also listed corporate strategy as one of your responsibilities.

From Forbes ● Jun. 16, 2014

The fathers whose sons had played merited a more aggrandized status in the fraternity of older men who queued along the passageway.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It seems aggrandizing and selfish to dwell on it when there are many people who lost everything in the course of that single day.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

His self-made story is tantalizing enough but Western media can’t resist aggrandizing the hardship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

But there is no noblesse oblige or courtly love, no dragons, witchy women or aggrandizing British accents.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

Fatherhood for me rests somewhere between selfless sacrifice and aggrandizing self-preservation.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

The most important interests of France in aggrandizing and enriching herself with what she most wants, supplies of every naval store from America, must inspire her with different sentiments.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education