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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

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

“Iran is suffering, too. I don’t think that this bluster, this sense of euphoria, is going to last once they turn around and look behind them and see the devastation of this war.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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 golden opportunity for his scorched- earth bluster arrived when the AEC released its official mission statement for Livermore in June 1952.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

They are stiff, and it is my mother-in-law who is sometimes ill at ease, though she gushes and blusters as usual.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn

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

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

Then in May, a rare line of thunderstorms known as a derecho blustered through Nashville, knocking out electricity while shredding trees and utility poles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

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

Both songs blustered of freedom; but both were sung to the same tune.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

On Thursday in northern Los Angeles County, wind gusts peaked at 56 mph at Lake Palmdale, with blustering winds recorded along the Central Coast and into the Antelope Valley, the weather service said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

On Monday, a cold front will usher in rain and blustering winds through Wednesday, with temperatures dipping to the low 60s.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green