brag

"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

The most cutthroat banks and consulting firms brag about hiring rates of 1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

My boy's going to college, he'd brag, even when Ty wasn't around and we could be real.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

“The exact thing that he brags about is now an indictment on him,” Hinojosa told me in an August interview.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 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

He brags about his rating in some basketball video game to Zane-with-the-nose-ring.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Howard Lutnick, the billionaire commerce secretary, bragged last year that if the Social Security Administration stopped sending checks to his mother-in-law she wouldn’t complain.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

She means it just as I would if I bragged I can benchpress a beer keg — that is, once I strength-train beyond my piddly 5 lb dumbbells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The federal attorneys said the Tates had access to resources that could help fund an escape and they had bragged about having multiple passports.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

This created an ideal environment for touts—one of whom bragged online about making a “good few quid” selling dodgy glasses, unconcerned about repercussions because buyers would “never see me again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“She let me drink coffee last harvest,” Chase bragged.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Davis’ lawyers will seek to portray him as a fabricator — his bragging is all fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

She added: "He posted on social media videos essentially bragging he was in Brazil."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

It was like they saw it as bragging, like ‘Ugh, fine, we get it, you’re educated.’

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Adam was nearby, bragging about how he was going to win that contest if it ever started again.

From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon