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
"You have brought happiness to all Ivorians, bravo, bravo," said President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, which hosted the pan-African tournament.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
“The Second Sons have no place for mummers,” the bravo j in pink said scornfully.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
They reached the castle; the bravoes who were on the esplanade and at the door, retired on both sides to leave the passage free.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
However, if there were no bravoes, there was decidedly no hissing.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
But no one could account for the attack of the bravoes: all agreed in suspecting Don Roderick; but the rest was total obscurity.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
Venice we reached last Monday, wild for canals and for color, Palaces, prisons, lagoons, and gondolas, bravoes, and moonlight, All the mysterious, dreadful, beautiful things in existence.
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
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 Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
By my watch, the ovation at the end lasted eight minutes, with especially ardent bravos for the Met’s chorus master, Donald Palumbo, and his charges.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
So what if our bravos are slightly muffled by masks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
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
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Next thing, I heave myself up and am on top, thumped all round with bravos by other riders.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Years passed and at the Metropolitan Tenor Martinelli continued to take second place to some more bravoed figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard
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
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
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous
