grandiose

Example Sentences

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The fight for new capital saps investment from other sectors, while meeting increasingly grandiose ambitions requires more computing power, which in turn demands more energy, which stokes energy price increases, and so on.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 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

The case for the Terafab probably isn’t helped by grandiose ideas that Musk has touted in recent years that fizzled out—such as aiming to scale Tesla to build 20 million vehicles a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

It wasn’t as grandiose as the lobby of the Greenbrier, yet it was grand and stately like a courthouse.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson