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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
aggrandize .
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Examples
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BEHAR: Well you know the thing about it is she kind of aggrandized (ph) herself at your expense.
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Sorry Alice but none of your arguments hold any water ... perhaps you've been too seduced by the overly "aggrandized" wines of France and Italy to understand that nuance, art and romance in winemaking do indeed reside in the New World.
I Guess Alice Feiring Doesn't Like Long Island Wine...Or Hasn't Tasted Much of It 2007
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Today Congress exhibits the worst kind of partisan behavior, with almost zero focus on the electorate, and excessive focus on self-aggrandized power brokering.
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I read the article associated with the link you provided and my initial evaluation was that many, if not all of the claims were either entirely false or heavily aggrandized.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Today Congress exhibits the worst kind of partisan behavior, with almost zero focus on the electorate, and excessive focus on self-aggrandized power brokering.
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Today Congress exhibits the worst kind of partisan behavior, with almost zero focus on the electorate, and excessive focus on self-aggrandized power brokering.
Accountability 2010
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The problem now is not an overweening Congress but an aggrandized executive branch; still, the remedy is the same.
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Such lies might seem harmless, especially when legitimate veterans have been known to tell aggrandized tales to make their service seem a bit more exciting.
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The problem now is not an overweening Congress but an aggrandized executive branch; still, the remedy is the same.
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Today Congress exhibits the worst kind of partisan behavior, with almost zero focus on the electorate, and excessive focus on self-aggrandized power brokering.
Politics 2010
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