audacity
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The proposal is breathtaking in its audacity, so much so that you could be forgiven for being distracted by all the elements and missing the bigger picture.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We hope the humour, ingenuity and audacity she brought to her work may continue to inspire you as it will do us."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
This was shockingly unbookish behavior made worse by flabbergasting audacity.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Big Bang” puts readers in the midst of this monumental scientific debate, while demonstrating that, for all its audacity, “the Big Bang model can be understood by everyone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
What little scrap of audacity caught the attention of an army officer on the road?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016
While watching “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” I tried to imagine the superb movie that it nearly is, the one that Minnie’s passionate audacities could have sparked.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2015
The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the youth's way to preface his audacities by the assurance that he dared not utter them.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Vocabulary lists containing audacity
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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