aggrandize

Example Sentences

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No one in 1787 could have foreseen Trump, but history had taught the founders about the type: men of “perverted ambition” who “hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country.”

From Washington Post

If everything is brittle, politicians have endless crises to justify aggrandizing their powers.

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

This points to Trump's inability to comprehend or value other people; he can only use them while they serve his endless need to aggrandize himself, then discard them when they do not.

From Salon

“It is troubling to see this kind of creep of” the separation of powers rationale, she said, “because, over time, it will invariably aggrandize presidential power.”

From Washington Post