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No one could accuse him of not proposing bold ideas to address a key concern that voters have.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
It's a bold claim, and one the industry is under mounting pressure to make good on.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
And while Met trustee Anna Wintour stated that the cancellation was “the right decision,” a film so bold and singular as “Unzipped” argues otherwise.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Ocean Way arrives after the collapse of the LA Jazz Festival, which had bold ambitions for a 40,000-capacity set on Dockweiler Beach yet fell apart under permit and financial stress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Visualizing the problem in your head, you straighten the text, bold the faded equation, connect it to the page in the textbook.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Investors wonder if Ternus will make bolder bets on new technologies, according to Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
“A potential series of small policy moves would be better than waiting and eventually concluding that even bolder actions were necessary,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The paper says senior economists are warning that the new prime minister will need to raise taxes, or else risk failing to deliver on his raft of "bolder policy pledges".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Investors might have also expected a bolder target from Ives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
They all turned to look as we entered, and some of the bolder ones came over and stared at me.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
In the boldest move yet globally to curb the rise of fast fashion, France is set to impose per-item fees on Shein, Temu and other platforms deemed by the legislation to engage in "ultra-fast fashion".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
On the day Arsenal appointed Mikel Arteta, back in 2019, the London club was taking one of its boldest gambles in more than a century of history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Lanterns,” which unfolds across two timelines, is the boldest entry so far in James Gunn’s remade DC Universe.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Then, there is the new prime minister's boldest claim of all – that he will be "bringing forward the biggest changes in the last 40 years".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Pinch was the quickest, the boldest, the most irritating of the boys in all of the camps.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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