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Some interpreted the move as the market calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

At least 25 people have died on California beaches due to coastal landslides, and many in San Diego’s North County are still reeling from a 2019 bluff collapse that killed three women in Encinitas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Is it possible, many have wondered, to foresee when and where a bluff might collapse — and perhaps even turn these predictions into early warning alerts?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

“And he doesn’t bluff, either. What he does is groom us. He prepares us for things that would otherwise be unthinkable.”

From Salon ● May 26, 2026

And suddenly, I’m angry, ready to call the Germans’ bluff.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Separately on Thursday, the inquiry heard how Mr Williams had referred to a former sub-postmaster and campaigner, Tim McCormack, as a "bluffer" in a 2015 email.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2016

A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2012

He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010

You are an arrant bluffer, Phil Ralston, but you’re not quite smart enough.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures."

From Time Magazine Archive

Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the latter may be classed Karl Steinmetz—the bluffest of the bluff—innocent even of his own innocence.

From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

At this stroke the man began to get angry; he frowned, and in his bluffest tone, began: "Look here now, you—" "Ta, ta, ta," interrupted M. Lecoq.

From The Mystery of Orcival by Émile Gaboriau

In his bluffest and heartiest way Blake refused to hear of such a thing.

From Love Eternal by Henry Rider Haggard

It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

In the 1980s, the two spearheaded a successful ballot measure still protects the coast from non-agricultural development and ensured access to the beaches and bluffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

The runners made their way through the Via de las Olas bluffs, an area largely scorched by the fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

Downtown, where bluffs rise above the serpentine Mississippi River, George Campbell was walking his goldendoodle, Zac, when he spotted a group of National Guard soldiers in fatigues, handguns holstered at their hips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

After we moved to Ridgeford, he'd ride his bicycle to a park along the bluffs and watch the sunset to "meditate on God's splendor," as he liked to say.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Later, when sent to a chemical plant, he volunteered to work as a welder and bluffed his way through a quiz designed to test his qualifications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

They bought in for $100 and bluffed when bored.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

Graham Paddison, of David Duggleby Auctioneers in Scarborough who are selling the lot, said that Mr Hill "bluffed" his way into the room where the Beatles were talking to the press.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022

Okay, she often bluffed and implied all sorts of things I knew weren’t true.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Thirty-two pieces on 64 squares with perfect information for both players—no one is bluffing or hiding any cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Those who remain alive might well be bluffing, projecting resolve even if they would privately prefer to sue for peace.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026

Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

But Scappaticci was bluffing and did not actually want to succeed, since if the government was ordered to tell the truth, he would have been confirmed as Stakeknife.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

I started easing my hand down into my pocket, to try bluffing . . . and one of them snatched open the door.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey