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vaunt

[vawnt, vahnt] / vɔnt, vɑnt /


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One of Europe's hottest tickets, Swedish startup Lovable, is sending boss Anton Osika to vaunt its technology that allows users to create apps and websites via a chatbot without coding experience.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

As the climate crisis has grown increasingly dire, many companies have turned to their landscapes to help them hit sustainability targets and vaunt their environmental bona fides.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2023

When one warrior wins, typically the victory is punctuated by a witty defamatory "vaunt" that signals the champion's prowess and the loser's now-verified inadequacy.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2021

Mr Johnson will also be keen to vaunt the success of the vaccines programme and, with the economy improving, project a sense of optimism.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2021

“And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?” demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

He vaunts Neura's order book of over $1 billion.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

The province supplements national allocations for children with hundreds of euros more per child and vaunts child-care programs, including one that certifies educators to turn their apartments into small nurseries.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2024

The school’s website vaunts its success in pursuits including karate, biology, chemistry, Arabic, music and Koran recitation.

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2018

And the Hilton vaunts him as a "dynamic and highly driven individual" with "boundless energy".

From BBC Jan. 4, 2018

He no longer vaunts a principle but portrays a human being.

From Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen

Lego is hailing Smart Play, launched in March, as the most dramatic upgrade of the Danish toy maker’s vaunted “system of play” since 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The high-speed, short-pitched attack also leaves questions for the vaunted India top-order, who folded in the face of the sustained barrage.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

First and foremost, many businesses that went all-in on AI have discovered that the vaunted cost-savings its promoters promised have been chimerical at best.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

As the interview progressed, Vance’s vaunted media savvy quickly morphed into something far more grating: a combination of condescension and profound insincerity.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

“I realize that you may destroy me, and if that is my fate, I welcome it. Come now, let us see if the vaunted reputation of the djinn is well deserved!”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

A far cry from the usual vaunting of athletes as something much more than that.

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2022

The government says Greece will now be able to stand on its own two feet, vaunting 1.4% growth in 2017 and a planned return to the markets later this year.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2018

Chipped walls are crammed to capacity with hand-labelled cassette tapes, posters vaunting and denouncing Somalia’s political climate, and dozens of DVDs, from Shaw Brothers kung-fu classics to ethnographical documentaries.

From The Guardian Jun. 26, 2015

In the end, however, the controversy only seemed to stoke interest in the title, vaunting Paramount to the top of the U.S. studio earners in China after a lackluster showing in the country in 2013.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2015

Men muttered in small cabals or threatened one another by the fireside, cutting each other with their eyes and hissing, vaunting superiority in their familiarity with the Unseen.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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