braggadocio
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But the braggadocio both in terms of the AI investment cycle and Nvidia’s place at the top of it, seems to belie a greater degree of concern than the company would likely admit.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
But the most likely outcome is that people will brush these warnings aside and answer them with braggadocio of the type “America is not for sale.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
This latest combination of vanity whining and braggadocio bombast was greeted from Congress, members of his staff, reporters and members of the general public with mostly wide, tired stares.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
The letter mingled braggadocio, grievance and therapeutic platitudes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
A few of the officers dawdled after their lesson, enjoying Mr. Turner's foining and the free exchange of youthful braggadocio.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Elvie Ellis navigates “On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492” with authority, then pivots from braggadocios to soul-baring as a budding basketball star with a dark past in “The Steam Train.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
“I’m a jealous boy, really feel like John Lennon,” he sang in “All Girls Are the Same,” in a mopey voice that could veer from downcast mumble to braggadocios rap.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2019
He engages in rap’s braggadocios side, opens up to romantic stresses, touches the issue of being black and queer in 2015, juggling all that while still eagerly dropping Pokémon references.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2015
Don’t feel that only braggadocios apply for awards; if you’re an expert in your industry, you deserve to be recognized.
From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2013
Among these are persons who bear the term of Iena-dizze- wug, that is, wanderers about the country, braggadocios, or fops.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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