chutzpah

Example Sentences

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He added: "Nigel Farage has chutzpah to return to the stage and say 'things are disastrous, and I'm the person to fix it'."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Launching a business without your knowledge when you were about to give birth takes some chutzpah.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

“He had the chutzpah to actually do something spectacular, which certain people find attractive and courageous,” said Jeff Goodwin, a New York University professor who studies social movements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe before the Holocaust, is now perhaps best known to many English speakers through words such as "schlep", "klutz" and "chutzpah".

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer