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audacity

[aw-das-i-tee] / ɔˈdæs ɪ ti /




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Unveiled in 2019, the Cybertruck sought to reimagine the pickup segment with a combination of jaw-dropping technical audacity and arrogance.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

But as rock grew and changed as a genre, it became “torturing” to Cohn’s ears, with bands competing in terms of their comparative loudness and audacity.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

The proposal is breathtaking in its audacity, so much so that you could be forgiven for being distracted by all the elements and missing the bigger picture.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

It's so stupid and basic, and yet it scratches a tried-and-tested musical itch with such precision that you have to admire its audacity.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I discerned he was now neither angry nor shocked at my audacity.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music."

From Time Magazine Archive

His technique was precise, careful, and rather laborious, without any happy audacities of brushwork, and without any display of cleverness for its own sake.

From Leighton by A. Lys Baldry


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