gloat

If it outperforms in the year ahead, I’ll gloat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

There is a temptation to gloat, laugh at and mock them, but that may be a trap which further imperil American democracy.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

Loomer, known for her influence over the president, used the moment to gloat about being correct.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

But, dressed in his signature dark blue suit, he did not gloat or celebrate wildly in his first comments to the media on Friday when the scale of his win became clear,.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

“You come over here now to help or to gloat and scavenge books?”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Dr. Fauci gloats to himself about his working relationship with Mr. Trump until late in the spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Oakland in ’87 was hella wild,” gloats rapper Too Short, the film’s narrator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

So gloats the puckish Wanderer, a narrator figure, checking in with the audience partway through the rollicking klezmer musical “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022

After "Live and Let Die" villain Dr. Kananga balloons and explodes from ingesting a gas pellet, Roger Moore's Bond gloats, "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself."

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021

But the voice gloats back, “Urgente,” and Tatica must obey.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Times columnist and editor Bill Boyarsky, and when I asked about his wife, Nancy, he gloated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

I gloated and asked if he could debunk false claims made by his opponent.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2022

But in the fifth he was burned by good friend Ryan Mountcastle, who was in Harvey’s wedding and gloated with a text and phone call shorty after the game.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022

Barr is a smart guy, but I watched him laughing and applauding along with everyone else in that room while Trump gloated his way through that self-indulgent monologue.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2022

Another, a woman, gloated, “This really suave old lady is teaching me how to make tortillas.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I won’t join in the gloating of some critics at the hundreds who have lost their jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Back in the 1990s, the California-as-disaster-epic narrative was tinged with some gloating — a comeuppance for a star-making destination that for decades was America’s post-war wonderland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

Panic and gloating go viral; reality-based exposition doesn’t.

From Slate ● May 15, 2024

But there's also a large element of gloating about this exhibition.

From BBC ● May 1, 2024

And now, more than a decade later, Debbie couldn’t help gloating a little.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater