bluffer

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Noun
  • California governor bans 'predatory' land offers following LA wildfires Residents who lost their homes in the Los Angeles-area wildfires a week ago are already being offered buyouts for their prime real estate - and Gov. Gavin Newsom is stepping in to block land speculators.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In Koh’s view, seasoned collectors in Asia have started buying again, though more selectively, and the Covid-era speculators have left the scene.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Every decision carries weight, and in a league where the line between contender and pretender is razor-thin, there’s little room for error.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The only saving grace for City is that there is no clear pretender to take its place as the top dog in English soccer.
    Joe Prince-Wright, NBC Sports, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024
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
  • The Democrats say Republicans are hypocrites for claiming to support law enforcement while simultaneously backing Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people who were prosecuted for the rampage, including those who attacked police officers protecting the Capitol complex.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The pardon now gives Trump and his allies the opportunity to call Biden a hypocrite and proceed having their own way with the law.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The good, sincere members would flourish and the charlatans, the folks who over-promise to their constituents, would not.
    Gary Franks, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2024
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