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- verb   Third-person singular simple present indicative form of 
aggrandize . 
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Examples
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But since this puppet show aggrandizes both the relentlessly power-accreting bureaucrats of the WTO and the multinationals, neither has any reason to let the cat out of the bag in public.
Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011
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But since this puppet show aggrandizes both the relentlessly power-accreting bureaucrats of the WTO and the multinationals, neither has any reason to let the cat out of the bag in public.
Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011
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Here the author aggrandizes the stereotype of the lazy nobleman—a familiar figure from Spanish literature—beyond its value for the question at hand, and his passing endorsement of "blood" as a determinant of character seems ill-judged.
A Peaceable Canvas Jonathan Lopez 2011
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But since this puppet show aggrandizes both the relentlessly power-accreting bureaucrats of the WTO and the multinationals, neither has any reason to let the cat out of the bag in public.
Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011
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He lets loose a marketing campaign of epic intensity, he hammers Congress, he aggrandizes to himself probably more unilateral power than any president in history.
Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devil's Decade 2009
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Lastly, we focus on someone who aggrandizes us as better than he or she is.
20 Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness 2009
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This brings us straight to reason #2: patriarchy, which splits the entire human experience into male and female categories and aggrandizes the former and deprecates the latter.
Hillary Rettig: The Eroticization of Equality and Social Justice 2009
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With the culture flooded with media that aggrandizes these classic horror figures Twilight and True Blood just to name a couple, it was refreshing to see someone represent vampires in the way they were meant to: scaring us into leaving a light on at night.
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When state politicians create a political structure that aggrandizes their own power at the expense of the people, let's adopt a constitutional amendment.
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Lastly, we focus on someone who aggrandizes us as better than he or she is.
 
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