brat

Example Sentences

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Mr. Cain convincingly proves his central thesis: that Jobs’s years at NeXT were the crucible that transformed him from willful brat to seasoned leader.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

Mahan was an Air Force brat who lived throughout the United States and, for a time, in England before his father retired from the military and started looking for a place to settle.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

Fresh from her five wins at the 2025 Brit Awards in March, Charli XCX had fans reliving their "brat summer" on Saturday, performing such hits as Von Dutch and 360 to a bumper crowd.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025

He told himself that he just wanted someone else to hold the wriggling brat, but Gherland knew there was more to the feeling than that.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill