bluster

He announced MI5 had launched an AI Threat Assessment Centre, which he said would assess sources and "separate the bluster from the realities".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Davis has since backtracked, insisting the claims were bluster and were created by a ghostwriter to sell books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Even Erika freely admits the art world is a scam, although some of her bluster is self-protective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

On Monday night, he vented his own frustration over the fair’s failure through his typical defensive bluster.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Despite all her bluster, deep down she knew there was no way she would ever fire him.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

Miller always blusters over the Broncos’ prospects, but this year his words hit different because of the depth and speed on this roster.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

Fey struggles to be believable as a troublemaker, working better in her more comfortable Liz Lemon register of frustrated and misunderstood, as when she blusters "I am not a hothead, I am brassy."

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2015

A horse grown old Slow kindling unto love in vain prolongs The fruitless task, and, to the encounter come, As fire in stubble blusters without strength, He rages idly.

From The Georgics by Virgil

Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

Chester blustered as Casimir and Etta Cybulskis from Poland joined the growing crowd, their four-year-old daughter, Eva, in tow.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap sketch the shifting alliances and blustering personalities that made this one of the most notorious Chapter 11 cases of the 21st century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

“I worry that all your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment,” she says gently.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth