bravo
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"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
So bravo to you for taking this on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"There was a lot of negativity about the Seine before the Olympics. At least they have tried; they have spent £1.2bn on this clean-up project so bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
The bravo reddened, but Inkpots laughed aloud and Brown Ben went so far as to chuckle.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Queen Eleanor descended from her throne and amid clappings and bravoes gave Richard the stalk of lilies which had served her for sceptre and was now his palm of victory.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
The attack of the two bravoes was made so suddenly and unexpectedly, that Manuel had barely time to jump aside.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
When he returned to the kitchen, and was employed in taking the polpette from the fire, one of the bravoes approached, and said, in an under tone, “Who are those men?”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
He lived at the house opposite to the cottage of Lucy, and had witnessed from the window the alarm of the bravoes, when Griso endeavoured to collect them in the court-yard.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The bravoes took, or appeared to take them, in the more serious sense.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The applause was delivered through texts and tweets, but the bravos could be heard by every enraptured witness of this Sondheim spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
At the end, the courageous cast and creative team received lusty bravos from many in the hall.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2016
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Celia’s decision wins her both bravos and more full-throated squabbling.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the end of the piece, the audience bravoed noisily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it was published in London last month, British critics bravoed.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"
From The Baronet's Bride by May Agnes Fleming
He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
