audacious
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It was the final step in an audacious scheme that began last offseason to build a champion in a single summer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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
Her performance - complete with Bjork dressed in the entrails of a blue alien - was one of the most audacious moments of the night.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
“What audacious criminal,” asked the magazine L’Illustration, “what mystifier, what manic collector, what insane lover, has committed this abduction?”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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