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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

Maybe there was an urge to gloat after the 31-20 triumph, but he resisted.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

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 doesn’t gloat like Malcolm would or taunt me like Aimee did whenever she won at Battleship.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Now, Eatherly’s ilk gloats about verbally terrorizing American citizens going about their day-to-day lives on American streets and beams this content around the globe for money.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

“He even gloats, ‘The gods are shining on me today,’ little knowing that he is as out of his depth as River was and is about to meet his demise,” writes Smith in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

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

Nicasia gloats through the lesson, proud of her heritage.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Which, as Kimmel gloated that night, he did.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025

Times columnist and editor Bill Boyarsky, and when I asked about his wife, Nancy, he gloated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

“Isn't it fortuitous,” Lady Isobel gloated one night at supper, “that the prince has returned just in time to meet my most beautiful daughter?”

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

Back in the 1990s, the California-as-disaster-epic narrative was tinged with some gloating — a comeuppance for a star-making destination that for decades was America’s post-war wonderland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

But there's also a large element of gloating about this exhibition.

From BBC ● May 1, 2024

The nasty, small, gloating smile with which she glanced back at the laboring old woman was both wicked and apprehensive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller