bombast
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Eye-rolling over Gorka’s bombast has given way to anxiety about the administration’s preparedness to identify and stop major plots.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
For more than 25 years, under the name Harriet Tubman, Messrs. Ross, Gibbs and Lewis have crafted a gorgeous balance of bombast and repose, and a distinctive approach to trio interplay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
In the closing minute, it switches into stadium rock bombast, as the band sing, "I'll follow you into the sun".
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
But beneath the bombast was the core of what pulled people into Sliwa.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
“And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing bombast
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans," Vocabulary from the argument
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Vocabulary Heard at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
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