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  • verb Present participle of embiggen.

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Examples

  • There are various options on the slideshow screen for setting options such as fullscreen, enlarging images (called embiggening!), showing titles, and playing in reverse.

    MakeUseOf.com 2009

  • Instead of stretching your budget to give your friend that hands-free umbrella he's been coveting, simply give what you can unto the mendicant in your friend's name, thus "embiggening" everybody.

    Give It Up: The Best Gift is Nothing at All BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Or, are the status embiggening qualities of your handbags gender selective in favour of females?

    Relief Efforts: All You Haters Soothe My Discomfort BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Yeah, I too prefer vague talk about embiggening our small politics with a noble bi-partisan spirit.

    John Edwards Declares April "Global Warming" Month 2009

  • Further embiggening the pile of parodies inspired by Senator Stevens 'infamously inept analogy: a t-shirt spotted at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) in NYC this week.

    Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives 2006

  • We have thrown away so much, wasted so much time, chasing after an illusion of egalitarianism that has - instead of embiggening us all - has taken away so much possibility, leaving us with so much unfulfilled human potential wasting away to nothing.

    From The Archive: Elitist, My Arse David Hadley 2008

  • The Magazine reserves the right to cancel, terminate, or modify people who use brain-embiggening technology because look, dude, this is Condé Nast.

    Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower 2008

  • We have thrown away so much, wasted so much time, chasing after an illusion of egalitarianism that has - instead of embiggening us all - has taken away so much possibility, leaving us with so much unfulfilled human potential wasting away to nothing.

    Archive 2008-10-01 David Hadley 2008

  • Syntax of Things: embiggening the Internet generation

    embiggening the Internet generation 2006

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    embiggening the Internet generation 2006

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