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
On Monday night, he vented his own frustration over the fair’s failure through his typical defensive bluster.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
The performances are all from the grip-and-grin school of acting: neat and precise with a minimum of bluster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
But as the day wore on, I realized he was mostly bluster.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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
Miller always blusters over the Broncos’ prospects, but this year his words hit different because of the depth and speed on this roster.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
Mr. Hodge, a Tony winner for the 2010 revival of “La Cage Aux Folles,” blusters, whines and suffers wonderfully, coloring in the character all the way to the outlines, and a little beyond.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
To thee The visible expression in the flesh, Material and tangible, Of all that goes to make the element That rages, blusters, blasts, and blows!
From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
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
Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
A late moth blustered in to find the fire.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
“I worry that all your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment,” she says gently.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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