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Similarly, in “Spirited Away,” when Chihiro finally wins freedom for herself and her parents, she doesn’t gloat at Yubaba but affectionately calls her “granny” as she leaves.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Maybe there was an urge to gloat after the 31-20 triumph, but he resisted.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Ysabel Jurado had every reason to gloat when I caught up with her earlier this week at the Highland Park home she shares with her father and teenage daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

And Perry was puzzled; he could not fathom why Dick, usually so full of himself, should suddenly, when he had good cause to gloat, be meek, look wilted and sad.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Which, as Kimmel gloated that night, he did.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025

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

"The description,” gloated Mrs. Bruce, "fits her like a glove.”

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

And so, when Dubai and other parts of the United Arab Emirates were targeted by some 1,400 Iranian missiles and drones over the past several days, the reaction abroad was often gloating and snark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Three is either a charm or a curse – depending on your point of view – and there are plenty of people gloating or kvetching today.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2024

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

Disturbed as if out of some gloating dream by his small yell she turned slowly the dreadful malice of her glance upon him.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien