coward
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The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called her “the biggest coward in the history of sports.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
"It's going to be challenging but I can be the coward or the hero and I have to decide what I want to be."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“We wanted everyone to see what a complete and utter coward he is once you remove his powers, pretty much like every autocrat and strongman,” Kripke says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The Australian leader's comments were condemned, however, by the outspoken activist Grace Tame who labelled them a "patronising cop out from a total coward".
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Paris, a weakling and something of a coward, too, as later events showed, chose the last.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In one Novosibirsk college, a director was recorded calling students cowards for refusing to sign contracts.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
And the likeliest one is also the simplest: They’re cowards.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
The Brazil forward, who has been the victim of numerous incidents of racist abuse during his playing career, said "racists are, above all, cowards" in a post on Instagram.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Decades ago, people who buckled their seat belts were thought to be signaling that they were cowards, afraid of getting in a crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Some even accused those men of being fakers and cowards.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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Excerpts from "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"
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