braggadocio
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Braggadocio from start-ups is de rigueur, and plenty of ex-academics have started biotechnology companies, hoping to strike it rich on their one big discovery.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
Braggadocio takes you far in politics or business; jocks, however, have to prove it in sweat.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023
Braggadocio has always been a valuable commodity for a rapper to possess, but talking to these three artists, it is clear they all have confidence in common.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2010
The night before, Mrs. Ella Henderson, a Braggadocio widow of 31 with two children, had called the constable and told him that she had been attacked.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is thought that Philip of Spain was the academy figure of "Braggadocio."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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