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Noun
For all of their bluster, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris missed the mark on cold, hard policy. Gonzalo Schwarz, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2024 There is also a widespread view that Trump is more bluster than bite. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
Like the band's music, the show's script reflects how Thornton's cadence and rhythm as an actor allow for quiet, expressive moments and blustering ad-libs that often carry the power of the statements or circumstances that dominate a scene. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 15 Nov. 2024 The new songs are thick but plush, intimidating but inviting, blustering but unhurried. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bluster 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluster
Noun
  • The rhetoric echoed his previous justification for the pullout: that the agreement imposed unfair economic burdens on the U.S. while allowing other countries, like China, to continue polluting.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Fourteen years after their initial passage, the record is clear: contrary to the rhetoric, New York’s sanctuary laws have proven to be potent crime fighting tools.
    Peter L. Markowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The rocket booster revved up the 33 engines at its base, sending a loud roar across Starbase, the SpaceX launch site near Brownsville, Texas.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • From the Miami Herald’s archives, here is Michael Crook’s report from March 1989 in Tropic magazine: Donald Trump in Palm Beach: Hitting a roar nerve First published March 19, 1989 The sun has disappeared beyond the middle-class condos of West Palm Beach and the western sky is painted tangerine.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Later, during a briefing from Zelia Baugh, executive vice-president of behavior health at John Peter Smith Hospital, a commotion could be heard in the lobby outside the court.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Gregory hears the commotion and tries to keep the Philly girls from pouncing.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • And of course, Dennis Hopper, huffing nitrous oxide as rapist, gang leader Frank Booth is a vision of male bestiality ripped out of a Francis Bacon painting (Lynch has acknowledged Bacon as a key influence on his work).
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Out front, Pastor Rodney Freeman and several volunteers — bundled up in thick winter coats, huffing out little clouds of breath — rush to set up the Bountiful Blessings food pantry.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That's because the economic mood is really what seemed to matter most, and many people don't take a lot of what Trump says seriously because of his penchant for bombast and his transactional nature.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025
  • On Dangerous, Riley helps carve a sharper figure out of the bloat and bombast that defines all of Jackson’s post-Thriller albums, and Jackson’s increasingly percussive vocal style came alive in new ways over Riley’s propulsive new jack swing tracks.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This Dash character is hijacking the satellite waves and the speaker systems, interfering with the noise outside and putting my music on — Nolimit music on for the world to hear.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The Red Sox-Vladimir Guerrero Jr. noise is growing louder.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza also created a stir about whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should attend or not.
    Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Europe wasn’t the only place where beauty IPOs created a stir in 2024.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Social media is Trump’s territory, and its norms—insults without consequence, braggadocio, and flame wars—line up neatly with his way of doing politics.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The braggadocio, the charisma and the grit underneath it all is what the city remembered of Henderson, who died at 65, days shy of his birthday on Christmas.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024

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“Bluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluster. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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