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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

Gamers, to protect what they cherish, become defensive and aggrandize games even though the gaming community isn’t perfect, as demonstrated when the author recounted being ridiculed for unconventional choices.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019

Make new hopes shine through the flesh they fray, New fears aggrandize the rags and tatters: To bring the invisible full into play!

From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

Jackson fired back that Barrett’s approach actually aggrandizes the role of the court and elevates it over Congress.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

As he life detests, More life is still more odious; and, reduced By conquest, aggrandizes more his power.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

He did everything to feel aggrandized and powerful.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2020

“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

In 2019 alone, “red” museums and memorials, aggrandizing Communist Party history, drew 1.4 billion visits, making them among the most popular destinations in the world.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

The taxi's meter was aggrandizing numbers for some time when they finally found her and took her away with them.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills