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They made up the story to aggrandize the threat.aggrandize = make appear greater in power or reputation
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Abbe de Mably says: NEIGHBORING NATIONS are naturally enemies of each other, unless their common weakness forces them to combine in a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC and their constitution prevents the differences that closeness causes, extinguishing that secret jealousy that makes all states want to aggrandize themselves at the expense of their neighbors.† (source)
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The principal efforts of the men of those times were required to strengthen, aggrandize, and secure the supreme power; and on the other hand, to circumscribe individual independence within narrower limits, and to subject private interests to the interests of the public.† (source)
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Alexander the Sixth, in wishing to aggrandize the duke, his son, had many immediate and prospective difficulties.† (source)
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Anyway, I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing.† (source)
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I couldn't have done it without you would not work; it sounded both self-aggrandizing and condescending.† (source)
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But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility.† (source)
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And although his intention was not to aggrandize the Church, but the duke, nevertheless, what he did contributed to the greatness of the Church, which, after his death and the ruin of the duke, became the heir to all his labours.† (source)
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Mr. Rife, what's your opinion of the people who say you're just doing this as a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt?† (source)
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because, had he not aggrandized the Church, nor brought Spain into Italy, it would have been very reasonable and necessary to humble them;† (source)
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To teach you foresight and aggrandisement.† (source)
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Their top executives are infamous self-aggrandizers, think of themselves as some kind of business royalty, but they are no better than us.† (source)
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He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.† (source)
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Isolation aggrandizes everything.† (source)
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The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation.† (source)
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Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).† (source)
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