bravo
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"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
So bravo to you for taking this on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"You have brought happiness to all Ivorians, bravo, bravo," said President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, which hosted the pan-African tournament.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
“The Second Sons have no place for mummers,” the bravo j in pink said scornfully.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He could not for a moment think of disregarding the menaces of the bravoes, and solemnising the marriage.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The attack of the two bravoes was made so suddenly and unexpectedly, that Manuel had barely time to jump aside.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
This will suffice to prove that, at the time of which we treat, the bravoes still existed.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
They reached the castle; the bravoes who were on the esplanade and at the door, retired on both sides to leave the passage free.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The ribauds were armed with maces, and watched night and day over the person of the king, who feared the assassins of the Old Man of the Mountain and the bravoes of Richard of England.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
So what if our bravos are slightly muffled by masks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
“She was nervous at first . . . but she stopped the show several times, and the bravos rang out like pistol shots when she finished.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2015
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
There were bravos and, from the many young people I saw around me, shouts and hoots for Ms. Weilerstein and the composer.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2014
Abandoned buildings were seen less often, die naked children vanished, the bravos in the doorways seemed more sumptuously dressed.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was bravoed in the capitals of Europe and South America, where he made the bolero famous.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they keep hysteria at a distance for a few hours, they are bravoed from one end of the Empire to the other.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
