brag
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They don’t brag about their money, don’t ask what we earn, don’t make us feel poor.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
"To the thief: we don't fault you for wanting to brag to your friends how much PBR you have, we just wish you obtained it the honourable way."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Hal is the kind of man who’d brag he came by his greatness through hard work and keeping his nose clean.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Nick Florko doesn’t want to brag or anything, but more than a year ago he wrote an article that has come to seem prescient.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
“You never did think I was much to brag about, now did you?”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
He keeps going to the doctor, has bruises on both hands, and brags about passing dementia tests.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I have not missed an issue in 32 years,” he brags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
While he brags, it is others who have to carry out his orders and, far too often, make the ultimate sacrifice.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026
Nobody brags about water stocks at cocktail parties — that’s how you know they might actually work.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
One woman brags that she can read and write upside down and backward, and that when she writes with her right hand, her left hand can follow along and write the same sentence backward.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Most of the people that travel the interstate have been in here. I mean, back in the heyday or whatever, we counted—one day, we had 86 people,” he bragged.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
A witness also alleged that Matlala had bragged about his "close connections with very senior police officials", including Sibiya, following his arrest in May last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Johnson claimed that Kean had addressed the matter “appropriately” and bragged about texting the Republican to tell him, “We’re in your corner and we’re behind you 100%.”
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Tio Chiche has always bragged about knowing Trujillo during their early days in the military.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Whether for clout on Letterboxd or simply bragging rights among friends, how one sees a movie has become a key part of the overall experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Joining the fight for Premier League bragging rights are Manchester United, majority-owned by US family the Glazers and Chelsea, whose ownership group is headed by American Todd Boehly.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
If any move does materialise for Romero, it would be a sensational development and be another deal, following the one for Eze last season, which would present a chance for bragging rights for Arsenal fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was like they saw it as bragging, like ‘Ugh, fine, we get it, you’re educated.’
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
She’d come back bragging about eating at a fancy steak restaurant.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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