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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

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

Phoenix has equaled Connecticut's nine-game winning streak to vaunt into contention to earn at least one bye in the playoffs.

From Fox News ● Sep. 7, 2021

Then came a rasping sound as those bright doors the key had sprung gave way— a bellow like a bull’s vaunt in a meadow— followed by her light footfall entering over the plank floor.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

We soon shall tame, O friends, this warrior’s might, Whom Mentor, after all his airy vaunts Hath left, and at the portal now remain Themselves alone.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

Their vaunted collection of young starting pitchers has been inconsistent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The high-speed, short-pitched attack also leaves questions for the vaunted India top-order, who folded in the face of the sustained barrage.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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

At the moment of discovery, the vaunted technology has produced something astonishing.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

And after centuries of vaunting the solidity of written language, there’s a kind of whiplash in signing on and watching our literary output swoosh by.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2014

Men muttered in small cabals or threatened one another by the fireside, cutting each other with their eyes and hissing, vaunting superiority in their familiarity with the Unseen.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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