brag
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“The brag for me is the stability of it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"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
I can't even find the guy on Facebook, so clearly he has nothing great going on that he wants to brag about to hundreds of acquaintances.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
He keeps going to the doctor, has bruises on both hands, and brags about passing dementia tests.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
He now brags that his daughter has a “high-powered direct report” assisting her at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Meanwhile he brags about acing three different cognitive tests in the last year.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026
Nobody brags about water stocks at cocktail parties — that’s how you know they might actually work.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Lourdes brags to her friends, “This is my son. Look at him! He’s so big. It’s a miracle he’s here.”
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
A witness also alleged that Matlala had bragged about his "close connections with very senior police officials", including Sibiya, following his arrest in May last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The tale contradicts comments he made to reporters on May 4, when he bragged that the new lining was “very strong” and “if you had a knife, you can’t even cut it.”
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Prenda principal John L. Steele even bragged publicly that Prenda had made nearly $15 million with its lawsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Our first trillion-dollar market was connectivity,” the company bragged in its prospectus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
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
Davis’ lawyers will seek to show he is a fabricator — his bragging is all fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
If any move does materialise for Romero, it would be a sensational development and be another deal, following the one for Eze last season, which would present a chance for bragging rights for Arsenal fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was like they saw it as bragging, like ‘Ugh, fine, we get it, you’re educated.’
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s nice of him, but Jessica hasn’t stopped bragging about it.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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