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brash

[brash] / bræʃ /




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Artists from the 1960s to the current day are included, reorienting the genre’s typical framing as a brash boy’s club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Before his legal troubles, Shkreli was viewed as a brash outsider.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“A.I. company makes big, brash economic claim” isn’t surprising, but these stories were striking because of the medium involved.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

New shelters known as hibernacula are being created using peat, tree material and brash to provide safe overwintering areas.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Rutherford, however, compensated with his own blustery good will: “He’s a brash young man,” he told Oliphant after Lawrence departed, “but he’ll learn!”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The American college game is known for being brasher and noisier than the professional ranks, with Fery showing he could thrive in a rambunctious atmosphere.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

But if, two years after ChatGPT’s debut, Apple’s biggest rollouts fall into the same PR nightmares that its brasher rivals are still overcoming, what does that say about Big Tech’s biggest bet?

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024

But recent months have showed a shift away from the brasher campaigning.

From Reuters ● Jul. 7, 2023

But he tended to downplay his virtuosity in his PiL days, describing his signature sound — made sharper and brasher by his use of guitars with aluminum necks or bodies — in distinctly post-punk terms.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

It was an institution for girls near my house, and the young ladies were faster, brasher, meaner and more prejudiced than any I had met at Lafayette County Training School.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

The planet’s brashest sport had arrived at what is putatively “The People’s House” to deliver a night of branded mayhem to the head of state, like gladiators bequeathed to an emperor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

But the brashest experiments in cut-rate flying might subside for years, given shortages of pilots, airport slots, and just about everything else they depend upon.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

As a pro wrestler, Drew McIntyre is one of WWE's biggest and brashest villains.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025

Smith was Black, female, new to New York City, with zero art credentials of the kind demanded by any museum of even the brashest up-and-comer, which Smith — a self-described low-key loner — was not.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Crazy Horse has earned its reputation as one of rock’s noisiest, brashest, most magnificently ragged ensembles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2019


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