aggrandizement

Example Sentences

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Sen. Patty Murray is the kind of politician who can be trusted to use her seniority for productive work, not personal aggrandizement or self-promotion.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Expecting an exaltation of victors and an aggrandizement of the host country’s preparations and successes, the committee requested that Ichikawa cut the film to the essential elements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

In other words, European elites actively sought not just to trade with, but to conquer and control, overseas territories both for profit and for their own political “glory” and aggrandizement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

What about a disturbing aggrandizement of “masculine” behavior?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Others he cultivated for their genuine capabilities on the screen, and for the sense of aggrandizement that he derived from associating with them.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown