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"To the thief: we don't fault you for wanting to brag to your friends how much PBR you have, we just wish you obtained it the honourable way."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Nick Florko doesn’t want to brag or anything, but more than a year ago he wrote an article that has come to seem prescient.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

Shannon Alsheimer said students in her daughter Haylie’s Carver, Mass., high school brag that “their mom got them a 504” before the SAT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Apologies for the brief brag, but I gave up quite a few racetrack days at Watkins Glen to make that happen — so it feels like a hard-earned win.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Then he said, “You sure nobody’s been talking about it? Sometimes the kids who pull these sorts of pranks like to brag on themselves.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

“The exact thing that he brags about is now an indictment on him,” Hinojosa told me in an August interview.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

The president often brags about the military and its lethality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

Nobody brags about water stocks at cocktail parties — that’s how you know they might actually work.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025

But they’re the good guys, while dear Carrington, who brags about out-billing them on the regular, has held onto her bitterness.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

But Double-Ugly brags he’s too fast wid it tuh git hurt, but Ah knowed better.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

The federal attorneys said the Tates had access to resources that could help fund an escape and they had bragged about having multiple passports.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Most of the people that travel the interstate have been in here. I mean, back in the heyday or whatever, we counted—one day, we had 86 people,” he bragged.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Prenda principal John L. Steele even bragged publicly that Prenda had made nearly $15 million with its lawsuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Bob Trebilcock relates that, near the peak of the tech bubble, the janitor at his church bragged about his day-trading profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

“No propaganda work undertaken by the State Association and Party has ever achieved such publicity,” bragged the New York State Woman Suffrage Association’s official journal.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

They say they are mainly driven by the adrenaline rush, tradition and, of course, the bragging rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Whether for clout on Letterboxd or simply bragging rights among friends, how one sees a movie has become a key part of the overall experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Joining the fight for Premier League bragging rights are Manchester United, majority-owned by US family the Glazers and Chelsea, whose ownership group is headed by American Todd Boehly.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

She added: "He posted on social media videos essentially bragging he was in Brazil."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The mayor voted on the winner, and that church got bragging rights for a whole year.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine