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vaunt

[vawnt, vahnt] / vɔnt, vɑnt /


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The Beninese authorities vaunt a strategy that has enabled the state to hike its tax revenues while providing better working conditions and combating unsanitary practices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

As the climate crisis has grown increasingly dire, many companies have turned to their landscapes to help them hit sustainability targets and vaunt their environmental bona fides.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

When one warrior wins, typically the victory is punctuated by a witty defamatory "vaunt" that signals the champion's prowess and the loser's now-verified inadequacy.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021

Mr Johnson will also be keen to vaunt the success of the vaccines programme and, with the economy improving, project a sense of optimism.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2021

“And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?” demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

He vaunts Neura's order book of over $1 billion.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

The province supplements national allocations for children with hundreds of euros more per child and vaunts child-care programs, including one that certifies educators to turn their apartments into small nurseries.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

The school’s website vaunts its success in pursuits including karate, biology, chemistry, Arabic, music and Koran recitation.

From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2018

And the Hilton vaunts him as a "dynamic and highly driven individual" with "boundless energy".

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2018

Chastellain eloquently vaunts their banquets and gorgeous festivities.

From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Emile Cammaerts

They talked briefly about giving him a shot at safety on Patterson’s vaunted TCU defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Lego is hailing Smart Play, launched in March, as the most dramatic upgrade of the Danish toy maker’s vaunted “system of play” since 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The vaunted 37-match unbeaten record of De la Fuente's men is impressive - matching Italy's world-best mark - even if it does discount a penalty shootout defeat by Portugal in last year's Nations League final.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Even their vaunted intelligence services failed to prevent the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

She has been to his high school games and knows he is the vaunted captain of the St. Joseph’s football team.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

A far cry from the usual vaunting of athletes as something much more than that.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

The government says Greece will now be able to stand on its own two feet, vaunting 1.4% growth in 2017 and a planned return to the markets later this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2018

Chipped walls are crammed to capacity with hand-labelled cassette tapes, posters vaunting and denouncing Somalia’s political climate, and dozens of DVDs, from Shaw Brothers kung-fu classics to ethnographical documentaries.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2015

In the end, however, the controversy only seemed to stoke interest in the title, vaunting Paramount to the top of the U.S. studio earners in China after a lackluster showing in the country in 2013.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2015

But he looked at Christopher and smiled a vaunting smile.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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