have the audacity
Example Sentences
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But no; half the time, corporations have the audacity to charge a service fee on top of the money they have saved by not hiring someone to do the work you, the consumer, just did.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026
To those in America targeting Tyla, she says: "To have the audacity to question somebody's self-identification and replace it with your own - that's ridiculous. You are not progressive."
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
Some said her look was "so bad that it's actually camp" while others asked, "How dare Katie Holmes have the audacity to try to bring back" the outdated dress-over-jeans trend.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022
“You have the audacity to tell us to eat ketchup sandwiches for our art,” Mr. Mosley shouted.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2022
Autumn and Ama stare at me, as if they can’t believe that I have the audacity to rock their worlds one more time.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
