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as in blustery

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as in brazen

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verb

present participle of bluster
as in huffing
to talk loudly and wildly the rude customer blustered and yelled threats about lawsuits, but eventually left

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Recent Examples of blustering
Adjective
Without the distracting histrionics of the blustering Republican nominee, the Vance-Walz face-off could prove more substantive than the two presidential debates that took place this summer. — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Verb
Juxtaposed to Colman Domingo’s blustering portrayal of Joe Jackson and Jaafar Jackson’s uncanny performance as his late uncle Michael, Long has found a way to make silence load-bearing. — Zeba Blay, SELF, 21 Apr. 2026 Eddie, a blustering man who’s often the loudest to laugh at the fat jokes hurled his way, is on the cusp of landing a new contract for his own variety show at CBS, a much larger network than his and Maggie’s current employer. — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blustering
  1. blustery
  2. brazen
  3. huffing
  4. violent
  5. shrill
  6. raving
  7. raging
  8. strident
Adjective
  • The temperature has long been too cold for sandals and shorts; the blustery autumn wind is no substitute for cosy rays of summer sun.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • But his brief remarks saluting the fallen soldiers were quickly followed by his usual blustery insistence that the war was going well.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Definition of blustery
Adjective
  • Their alliance signaled a brazen ambition to build the next great consumer product—this time for the AI age, and a bet that OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, could unseat the likes of Apple using the iPhone maker’s former design star.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • Nine months after a brazen jewel heist left the Louvre scrambling, the museum has finally reopened the Apollo Gallery, where four masked thieves stole eight items valued collectively at $102 million.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 22 July 2026
Definition of brazen
Verb
  • This version is battery-powered, meaning no more huffing and puffing!
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 24 June 2026
  • Lee began huffing gasoline at seven years old, court documents stated.
    — Nina Giraldo, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Definition of huffing
Adjective
  • Michael was arrested two days later, per Denver TV station KUSA, and charged with first-degree murder, use of a weapon in a violent crime, theft of $100 to $500, and abuse of a corpse.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Crime reached a breaking point that summer after a drive-by shooting killed a man at Progress Park, topping off a string of violent incidents in the neighborhood just northeast of uptown Charlotte.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of violent
Adjective
  • That trademark indecision of summer takes root in her words and spreads through the music until her vocals diverge in the chorus, peeling like a clementine’s skin as one shrill line scales upward and the other remains monotone.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
  • On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of shrill
Verb
  • Reviewers are raving about these matching sets for their lightweight materials that let airflow in.
    — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 26 July 2026
  • For the rest of us that the nerdy reference evaded, Jarvis recently won Atlanta's starting SS job, and manager Walt Weiss won't stop raving about the 25-year-old speedster.
    — John Laghezza, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of raving
Adjective
  • His disregard not just for the conventional norms of the office but, more importantly, his disregard for the truth in matters both personal and presidential add fuel to what was already a pretty raging fire.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Newsletter Sign-up The aggressive forecasts add to a raging debate among energy executives and analysts over what the coming decades may hold for the industry.
    — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
Definition of raging
Adjective
  • Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • The strident capabilities of harness engineering can greatly aid AI that is providing mental health guidance, but if the capabilities are weak or poorly implemented, the AI will be undercut in attempting to give mental health advice.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of strident

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