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He said agencies have aggrandized too much power to themselves when they seek to be both prosecutor and judge, through what’s known as administrative law judges.

Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, the employees either invented or aggrandized businesses, then filed for loans Congress made available to small businesses during the early days of the pandemic.

The official estimates had seemed inflated, deliberately aggrandized, exaggerated for dramatic effect, right up until the planes started landing and the streets started filling.

This aggrandized, conceited movement makes it neither a priority nor a concern worthy of more than lip service.

The spectacle of passing and implementing punitive welfare and crime policy elevated a macho vision of political authority that discredited some institutions and aggrandized others.