bluff
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She also envisions working with weather apps so that beachgoers can eventually receive a geo-fenced bluff collapse warning, in the same way a high surf advisory might be issued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“And he doesn’t bluff, either. What he does is groom us. He prepares us for things that would otherwise be unthinkable.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2026
Upper rows sagged where damaged ones had lost their sand but the bluff was more intact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Or it could be some combination of bluff and wishful thinking.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
Several riders had stopped their horses at the edge of the bluff.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
He said he thought Mr McCormack was a bluffer because he was saying: "You have options, or else" which Mr Williams saw as "a threat".
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024
He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2016
A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2012
He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010
Now I had always sized up the Colonel for a bluffer.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the latter may be classed Karl Steinmetz—the bluffest of the bluff—innocent even of his own innocence.
From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton
In his bluffest and heartiest way Blake refused to hear of such a thing.
From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider
At this stroke the man began to get angry; he frowned, and in his bluffest tone, began: "Look here now, you—" "Ta, ta, ta," interrupted M. Lecoq.
From The Mystery of Orcival by Gaboriau, Émile
Then CRG turned south to Festus, nestled near limestone bluffs and densely forested hilltops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
But she made a beeline back to the coast, settling in the craggy bluffs outside desirable Topanga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
A short walk away is Legacy Park, an oasis of coastal prairies, bluffs and native woodlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
The beach was small, only 200 yards long, but the bluffs made up for it.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
Later, when sent to a chemical plant, he volunteered to work as a welder and bluffed his way through a quiz designed to test his qualifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
He had a talent for making people laugh, a skill he honed one summer as a Catskills resort social director, and bluffed his way into a prestigious theater training program in Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
Graham Paddison, of David Duggleby Auctioneers in Scarborough who are selling the lot, said that Mr Hill "bluffed" his way into the room where the Beatles were talking to the press.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022
Burkhart, knowing that he had been bluffed once, said that he didn’t believe them.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Those who remain alive might well be bluffing, projecting resolve even if they would privately prefer to sue for peace.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026
The game is open and there is no scope for bluffing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
“And, of course, I didn’t have a film festival. I had an idea for a film festival. So I was bluffing on both sides.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
She knew I was bluffing, but ran off anyway.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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