as in gall
shameless boldness
I can't believe she had the audacity to tell me to shut up!
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Recent Examples of audacity
Give Cars 2 points for audacity: The follow-up shifts away from the original’s small-town, homespun charm to become a sleek, globetrotting action-thriller focusing on Lightning McQueen’s country-bumpkin sidekick.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025
Whereas the recent attacks from Iran and Ukraine respectively bet on mass and audacity, OFFSET and Colosseum have sought to give swarms the advantage of adaptive autonomy.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But none of the looks for the series regulars approaches Kathryn Hahn’s for over-the-top audacity.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
The shock, the horror, the unbelievable audacity of it.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025
Whereas the recent attacks from Iran and Ukraine respectively bet on mass and audacity, OFFSET and Colosseum have sought to give swarms the advantage of adaptive autonomy.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But none of the looks for the series regulars approaches Kathryn Hahn’s for over-the-top audacity.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
The shock, the horror, the unbelievable audacity of it.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for audacity
Noun
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People were essentially imprisoned in their homes, yet Newsom had the gall to dine mask-free at French Laundry with lobbyists.—
Houman Hemmati,
Oc Register,
20 July 2025
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And for all this some institutions have the gall to charge undergraduates upwards of $100,000 a year!—
Adrian Wooldridge,
Twin Cities,
6 May 2025
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Medrano, according to the suit, went to a doctor after her arrest and was diagnosed with a nerve compression injury in her left wrist and thumb because of the zip ties.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The speech, seen as a rebuke of the steroid era, struck a nerve because Sandberg was never a big talker.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
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The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2014 collection Men Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing look at male arrogance and how conversations between men and women go awry.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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But nothing in his tenure captures all at once the sense of arrogance, tone-deafness to the concerns of Floridians and obsession with keeping secrets.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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Temu is a low-cost online marketplace that has had the temerity to achieve popularity with American buyers while also being Chinese.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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The murmurs in the ballpark were that Dave Roberts wouldn’t have the temerity to not send Kershaw back out for the sixth inning.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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“Audacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/audacity. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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