bluffer

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Noun
  • Initially, some speculators were concerned that homebuyers would be hesitant to purchase in an area that recently burned.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • That’s not to say speculators are necessarily out of luck, though the options are not without controversy.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • But for those trying to fill out their brackets this week, here are the Big Ten’s contenders and pretenders heading into March Madness.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That’s where discipline separates professionals from pretenders.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • Lucas, Diller insists, was a sanctimonious hypocrite.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Matar spoke briefly at his sentencing hearing, calling Rushdie a hypocrite and a bully.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Death at the hands of charlatans is not an inspiring storyline, which means publishers and film studios studiously avoid it.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Trying to keep the population safe from a novel infectious disease, battling to understand the virus, but also navigating people's suspicion of vaccines and science, and their desire to use bleach and ivermectin, egged on by charlatans.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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