brag
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Nick Florko doesn’t want to brag or anything, but more than a year ago he wrote an article that has come to seem prescient.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
The most cutthroat banks and consulting firms brag about hiring rates of 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Not to brag, but I’m very good at laundry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Your column, appropriately so for its purpose, focuses heavily on financial literacy, and some of your writers brag about how savvy they are.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
On the third hole, I make a hole in one and brag more than I should.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
He keeps going to the doctor, has bruises on both hands, and brags about passing dementia tests.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
The president often brags about the military and its lethality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Nobody brags about water stocks at cocktail parties — that’s how you know they might actually work.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Even a former Kentucky district attorney, who brags that he “got a lot of attaboys” for partnering with NBC, softens his tough talk while watching outtakes of a soft-spoken and seemingly very confused arrestee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
Maxine brags about me, telling them, “She’s so focused. I just know she’s going to be a successful woman one day.”
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
He bragged about the stock market, the border, and his efforts to lower drug prices.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
A witness also alleged that Matlala had bragged about his "close connections with very senior police officials", including Sibiya, following his arrest in May last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The first was oracular and inscrutable, a chairman who bragged he had learned to mumble with great incoherence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
In a lengthy second post, Trump bragged about steps he has taken to beautify Washington, including resurfacing the bottom of the Reflecting Pool with an "American flag blue" coating used in swimming pools.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
“I delayed Giselle for seventy-five minutes!” he bragged.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
If any move does materialise for Romero, it would be a sensational development and be another deal, following the one for Eze last season, which would present a chance for bragging rights for Arsenal fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
At stake: bragging rights, a modest economic boost and the chance for local analysts and office-holders to make frequent appearances as experts on the cable-TV chat shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
It was like they saw it as bragging, like ‘Ugh, fine, we get it, you’re educated.’
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Welcome to Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual four-day motorsports-apalooza where the fastest, fairest and most excessively expensive cars in the world compete for driveway bragging rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Jinjoo had to bite her tongue from bragging that five chon was nothing compared to how much her father used to give her.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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