blustered

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When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2020

“I’m sorry to have taken your phone, but there you go,” blustered Johnson.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2019

He had blustered and complained about Ulbrickson right along with Shorty and Roger, but now that he was alone the bluster faded and the old weight of anxiety and self-doubt settled on him again.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown