audacity
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But as rock grew and changed as a genre, it became “torturing” to Cohn’s ears, with bands competing in terms of their comparative loudness and audacity.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The proposal is breathtaking in its audacity, so much so that you could be forgiven for being distracted by all the elements and missing the bigger picture.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We hope the humour, ingenuity and audacity she brought to her work may continue to inspire you as it will do us."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Then you have the 2026 Philadelphia Phillies, who have as much reverence for tradition as a tourist with the audacity to ask for Camembert on his cheesesteak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Then he has the audacity, the audacity, to pull my legs off the couch and make me sit up.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016
In short, without Cassavetes both New Hollywood and the recent outpouring of zero-budget independent audacities would be unimaginable.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016
The nostalgia that turns critics away from many of the most bravely original films today is itself a byproduct of the neoclassical audacities of the New Wave.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2015
The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The alterations are so various in their audacities that a brief general description is hardly possible.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
Vocabulary lists containing audacity
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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