bluster
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Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Davis has since backtracked, insisting the claims were bluster and were created by a ghostwriter to sell books.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Even Erika freely admits the art world is a scam, although some of her bluster is self-protective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
So for all their bluster in public, Bondi and Blanche were floundering in court as losses piled up.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2026
The Tilburys exit in a bluster of chatter.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
When he learns about the affair, he glories in having the moral high ground: “You’re Jesse James,” he blusters, “and I get to be Sandra Bullock!”
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
"What are you bawling for?" blusters the warder....
From Through Russia by C. J. Hogarth
Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020
“Why he killed them? Well, that’s no mystery, is it?” blustered Fudge.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Forecasters issued dire warnings about trying to drive through blustering winds and whiteout conditions, and Yosemite National Park was closed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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