showoff
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“I appreciate that Glacier Peak requires work for a view and it makes her quite different than her showoff sister, Mount Baker,” said Matthew Riggen, visitor information and field ranger for the Darrington Ranger District.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
“He thought he was doing his job. He wasn’t a showoff in that respect and wasn’t searching for hero worship.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
He could be daring, a bit of a showoff, yet friends were eager to be near him.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2021
FaceTiming with friends and family doesn’t work; she runs around in full showoff mode and can’t really interact via a screen that well.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2020
Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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