bolder

Example Sentences

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But that's unlikely to assuage the concerns of those who say the government has to be bolder to tackle an ever-increasing welfare bill.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Others are salacious — the kind of letters we might write if we were braver, bolder, well, Eve Babitz.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Rayner, seen as a potential contender to replace Sir Keir, called on him to "meet the moment" with bolder action to make people feel better off.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

It is this more easygoing Lucretian, Baconian, Charltonian approach which eventually became that of the Royal Society and of eighteenth-century science, in contradistinction to the far bolder one of Montaigne and Descartes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton