audacity
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The proposal is breathtaking in its audacity, so much so that you could be forgiven for being distracted by all the elements and missing the bigger picture.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
A classic Arabic expression describes the brazen audacity of those who attack and then cry victim: “He slapped me, pretended to cry, and then ran to complain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He railed against Rama’s audacity in offering up parts of Albania for sale at business meetings with men in suits.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
It was a characteristic speech, and sounded daring, but audacity becomes young people, and Amy’s ambition had a good foundation.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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 nostalgia that turns critics away from many of the most bravely original films today is itself a byproduct of the neoclassical audacities of the New Wave.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2015
The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the vulgarities and audacities, the shifts and the doubles of this shuffling man of prey, no one need again be troubled.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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