be bold

Example Sentences

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It’s a choice we make: to be bold and connect with someone or to hold back and avoid.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Admission is free, no reservations necessary, so be bold in your choices.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

We can be bold in a time when people are telling us to make do with less because Georgia ultimately has the resources, and we have the talent.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

"The tram is a potentially transformational development for our whole city, and we owe it to future generations to be bold and ambitious."

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt