bluster
Example Sentences
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The renewed bluster could derail the market’s recovery.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026
Even accounting for bluster, bluff, and negotiation tactics, it’s an extraordinary statement from any world leader, let alone a U.S. president, to make.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Thereupon nuclear bluster permanently vanished from the U.S. presidential vocabulary, experts in diplomacy tell us, for reasons that boil down to a loss of credibility once Moscow could match the U.S. in nuclear firepower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Culturally, this typically gets framed as alpha-male, gym-rat bluster about bootstrapping.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
She ached from head to toe; she wanted a hot bath and a bright fire to read by and was in no mood for the admiral’s bluster.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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