audacity
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It's so stupid and basic, and yet it scratches a tried-and-tested musical itch with such precision that you have to admire its audacity.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Through her audacity and fierce self-belief, Osterberg was a prime mover in rewriting the playbook for women in British sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This was shockingly unbookish behavior made worse by flabbergasting audacity.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
I look back and I just think about the audacity of a young Asian kid in that world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
What gave me the audacity to speak to him as if he were a person capable of seeing reason, I'll never know.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016
In short, without Cassavetes both New Hollywood and the recent outpouring of zero-budget independent audacities would be unimaginable.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016
The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German mystic, though ingenious and laborious, is also tepid, pretentious, insecure; half terrified at his own timid audacities, half choked by the fumes of his own alembic.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Vocabulary lists containing audacity
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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