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Six example sentences with aggrandize, each labelled with its topic.
Each new palace was built to aggrandize the duke, whose actual territory had not grown in thirty years.
History
He restructured three divisions mainly to aggrandize his own office, which gained two hundred staff and a larger budget.
Business
The colonnade was added to aggrandize a modest town hall, making the mayor's building look like a national monument.
Architecture
The governor used the flood relief ceremony to aggrandize himself, standing beside every rescued family for the cameras.
Politics
Each funding announcement seemed written to aggrandize the founder rather than explain what the product actually did.
Startups
The memoir exists mainly to aggrandize its author, who somehow stands at the center of every event of the decade.
Literature
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