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[vawnt, vahnt] / vɔnt, vɑnt /


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The Beninese authorities vaunt a strategy that has enabled the state to hike its tax revenues while providing better working conditions and combating unsanitary practices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

Then came a rasping sound as those bright doors the key had sprung gave way— a bellow like a bull’s vaunt in a meadow— followed by her light footfall entering over the plank floor.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2018

It vaunts the ascendancy of runaway money that is driving up property prices, keeping bankers banking and filling Mayfair with art-buying plutocrats.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2015

At home, superior wit she vaunts, And twits her husband with his wants; Her ragged offspring all around, Like pigs, are wallowing on the ground.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

Tampa Bay outplayed New York at every turn, stymieing the Yankees’ lineup and frustrating their vaunted rotation with a relentless offensive attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Colleges and universities have seemed at risk of losing their vaunted place in American society over the past few years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

As a producer, he’s made beats for the most vaunted names of the underground, including Sweatshirt, Mike, Mach-Hommy and Armand Hammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

At the moment of discovery, the vaunted technology has produced something astonishing.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

And after centuries of vaunting the solidity of written language, there’s a kind of whiplash in signing on and watching our literary output swoosh by.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2014

It’s easy enough now, on the high-speed road in a dependable and comfortable car, with stopping places for shade and every service station vaunting its refrigeration.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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