audacity
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“Call it megalomania, genius, madness, audacity, irresponsibility, whatever you want,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico who once tangled with Castro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
You almost have to admire GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s audacity in saying he wants to turn his company into an Amazon competitor by acquiring a firm multiples of its size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Operating on a mixture of audacity, talent, and sheer guts, Bertei became part of the No Wave scene that existed immediately adjacent to the Punk Rock Class of 1975.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
What gave me the audacity to speak to him as if he were a person capable of seeing reason, I'll never know.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
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
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
It was employed by Burke in one of the audacities of his logic directed against the governments established after the French Revolution of 1789.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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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