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bravery

[brey-vuh-ree, breyv-ree] / ˈbreɪ və ri, ˈbreɪv ri /


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Salute their bravery and their ambition - it is, after all, what everybody wanted.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Australian police dropped assault charges on Wednesday against a man lauded for his bravery during last year's mass shooting at Bondi Beach.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

It champions the bravery of embracing maturity with a young heart.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Lancaster Station Capt. Paul Bartlett praised the bravery and decisive action of the responding deputies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The Legendary Alston Boys’ agreed-upon bravery got them as far as the sidewalk outside of Mr. Archie’s Hardware.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

By the end, Parkinson’s and his past braveries in the ring had rendered Ali near immobile and mute.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2016

To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following the high-kneed, fancy twirling majorettes, some 30 bands gave out, in the simple-hearted braveries of Western brass and the intricate Oriental din of bells, cymbals and gongs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew most of the secrets, weaknesses, and the braveries of Salinas.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

And strain not thine eye after what We have bestowed on divers of them-the braveries of this world-that we may thereby prove them.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by J. M. (John Medows) Rodwell




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