bluff
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Some interpreted the move as the market calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I think the best way to put it is that the market is calling his bluff on inflation,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The roughly 1.16-acre property in Point Dume has nine bedrooms, a 20-vehicle garage and about 176 feet of bluff frontage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A self-assured broadcaster, critical and competitive, having his bluff called, being invited to not just talk about it, but to be about it: Walk the walk, why don’t you?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The English, despite their bluff, are certainly no more to blame for the war than all the other countries, large and small, that are now occupied by the Germans.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Separately, it emerged at an ongoing inquiry that Mr Williams had described a campaigner who tried to draw attention to faults in Horizon software in 2015 as a "bluffer".
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
I only used her as a bluffer, and she has often responded to my wants successfully.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
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
In his bluffest and heartiest way Blake refused to hear of such a thing.
From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard
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 Émile Gaboriau
Among the latter may be classed Karl Steinmetz—the bluffest of the bluff—innocent even of his own innocence.
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
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
The runners made their way through the Via de las Olas bluffs, an area largely scorched by the fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
It runs about 1.6 miles between the roadside and the bluffs over the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
It burned sullenly, giving off an acrid smoke that the wind brushed away to the north and west, toward the unseen bluffs.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
With Green stepping back to flay an expected short ball, he was bluffed by a Carse yorker that splattered the stumps.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Mr. Spiegel had essentially bluffed his way into the cockpit as a skinny teenager from Greenwich Village, trusting he’d figure it out as he went.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
It took him a while to get his footing, but the cap’n wasn’t ’bout to be bluffed down.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
As it turned out, the bluffing may have been unnecessary.
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
Armed only with a lamp, he managed to scare off the men by bluffing that he had a gun, causing them to flee the scene empty-handed.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Beneath all the bluffing lies a determination of credibility.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
Nobody said anything, but we knew he was bluffing.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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