bluff

“I think the best way to put it is that the market is calling his bluff on inflation,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Is it possible, many have wondered, to foresee when and where a bluff might collapse — and perhaps even turn these predictions into early warning alerts?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

A self-assured broadcaster, critical and competitive, having his bluff called, being invited to not just talk about it, but to be about it: Walk the walk, why don’t you?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

“And he doesn’t bluff, either. What he does is groom us. He prepares us for things that would otherwise be unthinkable.”

From Salon ● May 26, 2026

Fathers and sons followed paths down the bluff to the nearby coal mines in Brackenridge, where they worked twelve hours a day, six days a week.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

He said he thought Mr McCormack was a bluffer because he was saying: "You have options, or else" which Mr Williams saw as "a threat".

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2016

A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2012

He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010

I was only trying to keep up to my reputation and name as a bluffer.

From The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery by Quincy Allen

Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures."

From Time Magazine Archive

Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this stroke the man began to get angry; he frowned, and in his bluffest tone, began: "Look here now, you—" "Ta, ta, ta," interrupted M. Lecoq.

From The Mystery of Orcival by Émile Gaboriau

Among the latter may be classed Karl Steinmetz—the bluffest of the bluff—innocent even of his own innocence.

From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

In his bluffest and heartiest way Blake refused to hear of such a thing.

From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard

The incident was covered extensively by San Diego media and resulted in increased policing near the bluffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Liccardo also asked for nearly $1 million in promised funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a handrail project on the pier and an additional $9 million to protect coastal bluffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Then CRG turned south to Festus, nestled near limestone bluffs and densely forested hilltops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

High rock bluffs on the far side of the canyon with thin black trees clinging to the escarpment.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Later, when sent to a chemical plant, he volunteered to work as a welder and bluffed his way through a quiz designed to test his qualifications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

With Green stepping back to flay an expected short ball, he was bluffed by a Carse yorker that splattered the stumps.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

He said Jenkins often bluffed him about their targets or the size of potential scores.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

Burkhart, knowing that he had been bluffed once, said that he didn’t believe them.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

One of the people likened Kelleher’s strategy to playing hard-nosed poker with Swiss authorities, rather than simply bluffing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those who remain alive might well be bluffing, projecting resolve even if they would privately prefer to sue for peace.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026

Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

But Scappaticci was bluffing and did not actually want to succeed, since if the government was ordered to tell the truth, he would have been confirmed as Stakeknife.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

“You were bluffing, then. She was never in danger.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo