boldness

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Noun
  • And yet, the core of the brand—the audacity, the punk defiance, the challenge to authority—remains intact.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, Southwest — a budget airline that’s been under intense pressure from activist investor Elliott Management — is punishing the folks in the cheap seats for having the audacity to bring clothes on vacation.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But it’s got impudence and élan, and a feeling for life on the margins of English society.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
Noun
  • The disrespect of Shedeur Sanders has reached absurd levels.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
  • My concerns have only doubled since the hearing, at which two academics from the University of Connecticut’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Civic Engagement and Public Policy were treated with suspicion and sidelong disrespect by certain legislators.
    Julio Fuentes, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Here Are All The Companies Cutting DEI Programs For old school ‘proper football men’ seeing such insolence on the field is simply unacceptable and when he was asked about the incident on talkSPORT ex-Liverpool striker Dean Saunders didn’t hold back.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • As to the kids’ responses, the more genial Olmo is not above whining, while parental demands usually provoke flat-out insolence from Ana, who breathes cigarette smoke like dragon fire.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Boldness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boldness. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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