grandiose
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His grandiose offer is excellent marketing for SpaceX.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Kao’s dinner with Graham was part of his grandiose plan to make Navatek a major defense contractor.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The parallel might come across as grandiose, but coming from Mr. Power it seems to arise from an all-consuming passion for poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The clicky videos, the snaking lines of customers, the grandiose launch parties—it echoes similar consumer hype trends of the past, like McDonald’s hyperviral Travis Scott Meal or infamous Rick and Morty–fueled Szechuan Sauce incident.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
However grandiose some of our individual ambitions may have been, nobody on Hall’s team ever really considered going for the summit without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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