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“I think the best way to put it is that the market is calling his bluff on inflation,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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

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

“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

They had forgotten her by the time she reached the top of the bluff.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Separately, it emerged at an ongoing inquiry that Mr Williams had described a campaigner who tried to draw attention to faults in Horizon software in 2015 as a "bluffer".

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

Now let's see if our friend is really a bluffer or a fighter.

From Around the World in Ten Days by Chelsea Curtis Fraser

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

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

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

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

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

At a Sunday morning memorial, club members and friends walked together along the bluffs at Lovers Point, tracing the route of Fox’s final mile in the water, the Mercury News reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

It runs about 1.6 miles between the roadside and the bluffs over the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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

The windshield fills with enough canyons, bluffs, mesas, and cliffs for a dozen Road Runner cartoons.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

With Green stepping back to flay an expected short ball, he was bluffed by a Carse yorker that splattered the stumps.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

He bluffed, saying he had no debit card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Somehow, whether Judge wanted to stay all along and bluffed the Yankees into a bigger offer or whether the star was really considering other pitches, Cashman was unfazed by Wednesday morning.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022

John couldn’t have gone the rest of his life wondering if I had bluffed him out of a pot that big.

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

One of the people likened Kelleher’s strategy to playing hard-nosed poker with Swiss authorities, rather than simply bluffing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

She knew I was bluffing, but ran off anyway.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela