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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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She is not given to self-aggrandizement.
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Anyway, I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing.† (source)aggrandizing = increasing power or reputation
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But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility.† (source)aggrandizement = increase in power or reputation
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I couldn't have done it without you would not work; it sounded both self-aggrandizing and condescending.† (source)aggrandizing = increasing power or reputation
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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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Nabby, appraising the politicians she encountered in New York, including Governor George Clinton, surmised there were few for whom personal aggrandizement was not the guiding motivation.† (source)aggrandizement = increase in power or reputation
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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)aggrandize = make appear greater in power or reputation
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In a warming hut an hour west of Banff, where they sat after Mortenson had been dragged by a team of huskies on a cursory loop through the woods by himself, Mortenson spent the better part of the following afternoon listening to the man's self-aggrandizing epic about how a plucky contractor, armed only with grit and determination, had conquered the Banff housing market.† (source)aggrandizing = increasing power or reputation
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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)aggrandized = increased power or reputation
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To teach you foresight and aggrandisement.† (source)aggrandisement = increase in power or reputation
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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)aggrandizers = people who make something greater or make it appear to be greater
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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)aggrandise = make appear greater in power or reputation
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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)aggrandizer = someone who makes something greater or appear to be greater
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Isolation aggrandizes everything.† (source)aggrandizes = increases power or reputation
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Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).† (source)aggrandising = increasing power or reputation
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