as in to boast
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
even the noblest of fellows have been known to vaunt a bit
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Recent Examples of vaunt
Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
Fort Stewart in Georgia houses the US Army’s vaunted 3rd Infantry Division, a premier fighting force roughly 20,000 soldiers strong.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
While people are generally gracious about missteps, recent surges in tourist numbers are starting to strain that vaunted hospitality.
—Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.
—James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025
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Verb
Coneflower or Echinacea, another daisy family selection, has vaunted medicinal properties that could easily classify it as an herb, yet its value as a perennial, albeit one that will probably not live for more than three years in our climate, is often overlooked.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
Fort Stewart in Georgia houses the US Army’s vaunted 3rd Infantry Division, a premier fighting force roughly 20,000 soldiers strong.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
While people are generally gracious about missteps, recent surges in tourist numbers are starting to strain that vaunted hospitality.
—Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.
—James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaunt
Verb
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The car boasts its own bar, dining area, and lounge, along with dedicated stewards, a pantry and kitchen, and the opportunity to transition into a theatrical space or dance floor, the company shared with Travel + Leisure.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
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The great room of the house, a space inspired by the forest city Caras Galadhon in The Lord of the Rings, boasts a cathedral ceiling that soars 40 feet in the air and is crossed by branches, tree limbs and vines.—
Mark Lamster
Architecture Critic,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But by the time of his individual short program Tuesday night, Malinin's fearless swagger and unrivaled spunk was back.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Wandering the icy streets of Cortina in a furry hat, houndstooth coat and enough swagger to make the snowflake medal hanging from his neck jangle in agreement, Coach Snoop (as one of his beanies reads) appears in his element.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Their deaths occurred roughly seven weeks apart last year — Harper, 18, was gunned down at a house party in Bay Point by intruders who allegedly bragged about it online afterward.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Self-promotion, though, is still an area of weakness for Harvey, who isn’t one to brag about his accomplishments.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Play Now Toni’s blasé egotism is mostly consistent across a film filled with conspiracy, backstabbing, and political fallout.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
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By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
4 May 2023
Noun
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The show brought blockbuster buzz for its first season from the start and the Emmys ate it up, whether because of Hollywood’s love for stories about itself (with A-list guest stars) or the television industry’s love for stories that mock the self-importance of movie people.—
Andrew Dalton,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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We’d sometimes get threatened, and that only inflated our self-importance.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The bizarre reality of daily life in a Southeast Asian scam compound—the tactics, the tone, the mix of cruelty and upbeat corporate prattle—is revealed at an unprecedented level of resolution in a leak of documents to WIRED from a whistleblower inside one such sprawling fraud operation.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.—
Sarah Kuta,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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Now the babble about them is back.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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