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swashbuckle

[swosh-buhk-uhl, swawsh-] / ˈswɒʃˌbʌk əl, ˈswɔʃ- /


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Sterling K. Brown, an executive producer, plays Medwin, a character much expanded from the novel, the unofficial mayor of the Black community who will swashbuckle in when a day needs to be saved.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

Intrigue abounds, not least over whether England can swashbuckle their way to success against an Australian bowling attack that is pound-for-pound the best on the planet.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2023

Abrams said audiences should expect “great, daring swashbuckle fun” as Rey, Poe and Finn team together, a “moving” story and even “horror” at times.

From Reuters Dec. 13, 2019

In replacing Paul Lambert with the former Newcastle manager, the Canaries have attempted to swap swashbuckle for solidity yet here they showed neither.

From The Guardian Sep. 29, 2012

These men, it might be noticed, were the congenital adventurers, men who needed to swashbuckle and revel in the name of individualist.

From Rastignac the Devil by Farmer, Philip José

“So what has gone wrong for Marcelo Bielsa’s team, who swashbuckled to ninth place last season but languish in the bottom three?”

From The Guardian Oct. 1, 2021

They should be high on confidence right now, too, having swashbuckled magnificently to snatch the play-off spot in their group from Scotland.

From The Guardian Nov. 13, 2015

He galloped over the moors on horseback and swashbuckled energetically with a poker, but displayed no talent for depravity.

From The Guardian Aug. 20, 2011

For one giddy moment last week, playing like champions, they even swashbuckled themselves to the top of the league.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rajah scattered the seeds about, spurned the banana-tip, tilted the water-cup and swashbuckled generally.

From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold

Vice President JD Vance told the mourners Graham was an affable, gregarious politician who would slap Senate colleagues on the back and had a passion for engaging opponents in "swashbuckling" debate.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

“He’d come to 101 Park Avenue, where I was a lawyer. He had this swashbuckling style,” Witkoff told a surprised Tucker Carlson on an early-2025 appearance on Carlson’s podcast.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

For decades, Diet Coke has been a durable pop culture icon, as much a symbol of boardroom swashbuckling as high fashion society.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

Coach John Mitchell has sold the scorelines as evidence of a new, swashbuckling style and a willingness to slug it out toe to toe with the world.

From BBC May 16, 2026

He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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