bravo

"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

You’ve created the life you wanted for yourself, and you can afford to eat in your favorite hotspots, so bravo for making it this far on your own terms.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

"There was a lot of negativity about the Seine before the Olympics. At least they have tried; they have spent £1.2bn on this clean-up project so bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

Any bravo who saw the prospect of some caprice-suiting as inviting enough to visit the Amazons himself, Carvajal solemnly warned, “would go a boy and return an old man.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He cast a glance across the low stone wall upon the fields; no one! another on the road that lay before him; no one, except the bravoes!

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

When he returned to the kitchen, and was employed in taking the polpette from the fire, one of the bravoes approached, and said, in an under tone, “Who are those men?”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

Five hundred gentlemen of the best blood in England would hardly have stood tamely by while the bravoes of Whitehall laid hands on their leaders in the midst of the Parliament.

From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard

The antechambers, the courts, and the street, were crowded with servants, pages, and bravoes.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

Margaretha had retired to her own chamber and the bravoes were concealed with me in the garden.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

The bravos and foot-stamping began the second Plácido Domingo was spotted walking onstage Sunday, leading to a standing ovation that lasted well over a minute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016

And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

I can only assume the the few bravos were ironic.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012

Dying bravos oft found their way to the House of Black and White, to hasten their ends, but this man had no wounds that she could find.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was bravoed in the capitals of Europe and South America, where he made the bolero famous.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous