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Similarly, in “Spirited Away,” when Chihiro finally wins freedom for herself and her parents, she doesn’t gloat at Yubaba but affectionately calls her “granny” as she leaves.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

If it outperforms in the year ahead, I’ll gloat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Ysabel Jurado had every reason to gloat when I caught up with her earlier this week at the Highland Park home she shares with her father and teenage daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

From midnight onward, most of the network’s anchors and panelists were still trying to be professional, while also just waiting for the opportunity to safely gloat.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024

He didn’t gloat, but he grinned and sang one of his favorite songs about hard work.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Dr. Fauci gloats to himself about his working relationship with Mr. Trump until late in the spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

So gloats the puckish Wanderer, a narrator figure, checking in with the audience partway through the rollicking klezmer musical “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022

After "Live and Let Die" villain Dr. Kananga balloons and explodes from ingesting a gas pellet, Roger Moore's Bond gloats, "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself."

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021

My husband doesn’t believe me, and she even gloats about that.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2020

But the voice gloats back, “Urgente,” and Tatica must obey.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The crowd heckled people going in and took their photos in hopes of "outing" them, but rather than react with shame, the attendees gloated, smiled, and laughed.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

I gloated and asked if he could debunk false claims made by his opponent.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2022

But in the fifth he was burned by good friend Ryan Mountcastle, who was in Harvey’s wedding and gloated with a text and phone call shorty after the game.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022

But Twitter is blocked in the mainland, and on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, users gloated about finding regional Chinese food in online maps of Taiwan.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

“He’s not himself. His exam results came the day before you did; twelve O.W.L.s and he hardly gloated at all.”

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who poured a lot of time, money, coordination, pressure, and campaigning into the outcome, was understandably gloating following the result.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

I won’t join in the gloating of some critics at the hundreds who have lost their jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

There was no gloating from John about that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

"The voices are gloating at the trouble they have got him into here," he said.

From BBC ● May 8, 2024

Disturbed as if out of some gloating dream by his small yell she turned slowly the dreadful malice of her glance upon him.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien