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 bravo reddened, but Inkpots laughed aloud and Brown Ben went so far as to chuckle.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
However, if there were no bravoes, there was decidedly no hissing.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
The antechambers, the courts, and the street, were crowded with servants, pages, and bravoes.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The bravoes draw near, and kept their eyes upon him.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
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
He was the leader of this troop of bravoes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
By my watch, the ovation at the end lasted eight minutes, with especially ardent bravos for the Met’s chorus master, Donald Palumbo, and his charges.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
So what if our bravos are slightly muffled by masks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Celia’s decision wins her both bravos and more full-throated squabbling.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Years passed and at the Metropolitan Tenor Martinelli continued to take second place to some more bravoed figure.
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
After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
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
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
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
