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She also envisions working with weather apps so that beachgoers can eventually receive a geo-fenced bluff collapse warning, in the same way a high surf advisory might be issued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

“And he doesn’t bluff, either. What he does is groom us. He prepares us for things that would otherwise be unthinkable.”

From Salon ● May 26, 2026

Administration officials fielded phone calls from executives and political allies trying to decipher whether Trump’s threat was a bluff or a prelude to an escalation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Even accounting for bluster, bluff, and negotiation tactics, it’s an extraordinary statement from any world leader, let alone a U.S. president, to make.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Out where the bluff hadn’t offered its protection, trees were toppled like matchsticks.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

He said he thought Mr McCormack was a bluffer because he was saying: "You have options, or else" which Mr Williams saw as "a threat".

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

Captain Cathie, in one of his bluffer moments, bluntly suggested wholesale marriage as a preventive of irregularities, and the starting of a new race on that basis, instancing the Pitcairners as typical resultants.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

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

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

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

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider

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 Gaboriau, Émile

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

From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton

Liccardo also asked for nearly $1 million in promised funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a handrail project on the pier and an additional $9 million to protect coastal bluffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

The runners made their way through the Via de las Olas bluffs, an area largely scorched by the fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

The bluffs were off-limits, and it was one thing to sneak up there under the cover of night, but it was another altogether to go there during the day.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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

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

Graham Paddison, of David Duggleby Auctioneers in Scarborough who are selling the lot, said that Mr Hill "bluffed" his way into the room where the Beatles were talking to the press.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022

Burkhart, knowing that he had been bluffed once, said that he didn’t believe them.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Those who remain alive might well be bluffing, projecting resolve even if they would privately prefer to sue for peace.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026

As it turned out, the bluffing may have been unnecessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

“And, of course, I didn’t have a film festival. I had an idea for a film festival. So I was bluffing on both sides.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

Bobby Gene’s bluffing skills were right up there with his vocabulary.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon