swanked

Definition of swankednext
past tense of swank

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Verb
  • This low-budget-looking spot was way more successful than the company's previous 2000 Super Bowl ad, the one that bragged about wasting 2 million bucks while showing a monkey dancing on a bucket.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Tampa school bragged this fall that its new first-year class had the highest SAT scores in its history and included students from 45 states.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Trump in his remarks boasted of returning religion back to the center of American politics and culture, emphasizing efforts to support prayer in school, policies targeting transgender people and the creation of a White House faith office, among other actions.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The Wolverines went 12-2, made the College Football Playoffs and boasted a top-10 defense.
    D. Orlando Ledbetter, AJC.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, seniors Ian Alexion and Grant Darmofal spearheaded the Blue Devils’ vaunted triple-option attack and kept Fairhaven rolling all the way to a Division 6 state title Thursday night at Gillette Stadium.
    Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And in 2017, only one year after having helped vaunted Alabama win a national championship as its offensive coordinator, Kiffin was abruptly fired by iconic coach Nick Saban only days before the Crimson Tide attempted to win a second consecutive championship.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Attendee’s workday blues than completely vanished thanks to Billboard‘s Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year GELO, who swaggered about the stage and ignited the party with the littest cuts off his debut album, League of My Own.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • Nuuk, the territory’s capital city, is emblematic of those towns, featuring brightly colored houses crowed together between a jagged coastline and inland mountains.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • While some in Kansas have crowed about poaching the team from Missouri, other residents are more critical of the deal’s generous terms for Chiefs ownership.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
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“Swanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swanked. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.

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