audacious
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Leyland's first try came as he scooped the ball over the line but his second came courtesy of an audacious run-in from halfway, which sent the home fans into raptures.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Borgli’s audacious, stark writing defies faux outrage, even if that performative indignation will be an inevitable product of a film so daring.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
"I was ambitious, audacious and a little bit of naive," will.i.am said of pursuing the project.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
From these narrow scraps grew “The Star of Redemption,” an audacious 1921 book conceived under fire that asks what remains of love—both human and divine—after war has marched a continent into the mud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The two young men were taking the same engineering class and had a common and audacious objective that radiant afternoon.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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