audacity
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Through her audacity and fierce self-belief, Osterberg was a prime mover in rewriting the playbook for women in British sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This was shockingly unbookish behavior made worse by flabbergasting audacity.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
They read midlife modesty, not stoke; they’re lacking in the joyous, playful audacity that Kasparian and her team infused into their groundbreaking designs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
The Purosangue’s wheels and tires, glorious in their audacity, also required some sophisticated workarounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
It is a testament to Darwin’s scientific audacity that he was not particularly bothered by the prospect of human descent from apelike ancestors.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
In short, without Cassavetes both New Hollywood and the recent outpouring of zero-budget independent audacities would be unimaginable.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016
The nostalgia that turns critics away from many of the most bravely original films today is itself a byproduct of the neoclassical audacities of the New Wave.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2015
Lawrence, reserved, incorrigible, skulks about England, trying to decide whether or not to give the world his 120,000-word Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the staggering chronicle of his secret audacities and triumphs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It would even be easy for them to surpass them, without endangering the solidity of the structure, as did the audacities of Gothic art.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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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