bluster
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Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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
So for all their bluster in public, Bondi and Blanche were floundering in court as losses piled up.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2026
He's pale and subdued, all his bluster gone.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
When he learns about the affair, he glories in having the moral high ground: “You’re Jesse James,” he blusters, “and I get to be Sandra Bullock!”
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
He blusters and fingers his revolver, but carries no weight.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
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
Rain blew and streaked down the window glass, and when Mrs. Diamant blustered back into the apartment, I hurried to meet her.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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
“I worry that your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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