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

“There are people who throw punches and bluster to make noise in the room,” said Emery Simon, Spotify’s former vice president of global government relations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 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

A bluster of wind blew a swirl of snow down into the crevasse.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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

Myers is especially fine conveying a sort of shyness seasoned with bravado, along with various degrees of worry that only increase as she blusters her way into ever more perilous situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

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

Straight from Whit'sheet Hill to Benvill Lane the blusters pass, Hitting hedges, milestones, handposts, trees, and tufts of grass.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

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

He had blustered and complained about Ulbrickson right along with Shorty and Roger, but now that he was alone the bluster faded and the old weight of anxiety and self-doubt settled on him again.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

“All right, Mongo’s home, Chicago!” bellowed the blustering Bear with long black hair tucked under his baseball cap.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Lord Jonos Bracken arrived from the ruins of Stone Hedge, glowering and blustering, and took a seat as far from Tytos Blackwood as the tables would permit.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin