bluster

Suddenly, China’s stated mission to put people on the moon before 2030 seems less like bluster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

They are lulled into a smug confidence that his threats will always be toothless bluster.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

The renewed bluster could derail the market’s recovery.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 19, 2026

So for all their bluster in public, Bondi and Blanche were floundering in court as losses piled up.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 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

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

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

The art critic Jerry Saltz blusters that the painting is not just not a Leonardo, but that it’s garbage.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

The instinct to kill game is, I believe, universal with man, else how should it still live in my father, who, though he blusters like Monkbarns, is very much of an Uncle Toby in disposition.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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

Mr. Stonecrop blustered out of the house, and Turner and his father watched him take the street by right of possession.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

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