bluff

Some interpreted the move as the market calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

In a social media post Saturday, the department said the overnight erosion had left the bluff edge unstable, with “drop-offs of up to 8 feet” in some areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

“I think the best way to put it is that the market is calling his bluff on inflation,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Perched on a bluff near the Gulf of Mexico, Clearwater entices millions each year with its sugary-white beach and turquoise waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

I turn away from the bluff, toward her.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Separately on Thursday, the inquiry heard how Mr Williams had referred to a former sub-postmaster and campaigner, Tim McCormack, as a "bluffer" in a 2015 email.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2016

A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2012

He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010

You are an arrant bluffer, Phil Ralston, but you’re not quite smart enough.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures."

From Time Magazine Archive

At this stroke the man began to get angry; he frowned, and in his bluffest tone, began: "Look here now, you—" "Ta, ta, ta," interrupted M. Lecoq.

From The Mystery of Orcival by Émile Gaboriau

In his bluffest and heartiest way Blake refused to hear of such a thing.

From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard

Among the latter may be classed Karl Steinmetz—the bluffest of the bluff—innocent even of his own innocence.

From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

Then CRG turned south to Festus, nestled near limestone bluffs and densely forested hilltops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

But she made a beeline back to the coast, settling in the craggy bluffs outside desirable Topanga.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

During the pandemic, on my afternoon walk along the Santa Monica bluffs, I did actually meet another ex-New Yorker, who formed a welcome little pod with me that saw us both through that dark age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

Hundreds or thousands more stood atop the bluffs on the south bank, waving palm leaves in synchrony to create a kind of football wave that Carvajal clearly found peculiar and unnerving.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Later, when sent to a chemical plant, he volunteered to work as a welder and bluffed his way through a quiz designed to test his qualifications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

With Green stepping back to flay an expected short ball, he was bluffed by a Carse yorker that splattered the stumps.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

He had a talent for making people laugh, a skill he honed one summer as a Catskills resort social director, and bluffed his way into a prestigious theater training program in Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022

Okay, she often bluffed and implied all sorts of things I knew weren’t true.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Kids know if you’re bluffing, so do not make a threat that you’re not willing to carry though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Mehdi, a 58-year-old salesman believes the opposite, saying that "the Americans are bluffing" and that "the negotiations will be 100% successful".

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

But Scappaticci was bluffing and did not actually want to succeed, since if the government was ordered to tell the truth, he would have been confirmed as Stakeknife.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

Beneath all the bluffing lies a determination of credibility.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025

A few seats along, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were discussing magical methods of aging themselves and bluffing their way into the Triwizard Tournament.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling