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to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
she bragged that she was richer than anyone else in the state
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Recent Examples of bragging
Nathan Bomey, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
For those not super familiar with bird hunting, Walz was bragging.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
Further evidence is the fact that Amazon is bragging about, not hiding, season 2 viewership.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
By 2005, the network had grown to 100 cameras, with officials bragging that newer models could capture scenes two to three blocks away and relay feeds directly to the 911 center.
—Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
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Tesla responded Thursday by posting a video on X bragging about the robot's capabilities in what was seen as an attempt to provide assurances that the demonstration wasn't all smoke and mirrors.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
For those not super familiar with bird hunting, Walz was bragging.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
Further evidence is the fact that Amazon is bragging about, not hiding, season 2 viewership.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
By 2005, the network had grown to 100 cameras, with officials bragging that newer models could capture scenes two to three blocks away and relay feeds directly to the 911 center.
—Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bragging
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What people post on social media might be considered boastful, or celebratory depending on how an individual has been socialized.Ellen Choi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Conversations with landlords have turned from boastful pride to cautious consideration.Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 26 Oct. 2024
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Digital access to wayfinding Now boasting more than 400 employees and headquartered in the outdoors mecca of Missoula, Montana, this digital map company is doing more than creating pretty pictures of the terrain.Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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The show, which debuted in 1981 as the Gulf Computer Exhibition in a single hall at the same venue, is now on its 44th edition and this year spanned 40 halls, boasting over 6,500 exhibitors, 1,800 startups and 1,200 investors, with attendees from 180 countries.Yara Enany, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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From this noble, if admittedly egotistical goal, come gaslighting, madness, war, self-mutilation, and murder.James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Pharrell Williams’s egotistical fantasy Talent is not always original.Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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Joining Burr on the big election episode is cocky rocker Mk.gee as musical guest.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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No nerves for Mike Franks, though — a cocky, mustachioed figure of indeterminate Southern origin who wears his machismo and political incorrectness on his suspenders.Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
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But the album’s mix of empowering dance-pop and bombastic arena rock was unquestionably Gaga’s brainchild — no one else made the decision to place her head at the front of a motorcycle on the album cover.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Watch on Deadline Writer Mak Tin-shu, whose credits include last year’s milestone alien invasion extravaganza Warriors of Future, offsets the action with a generous showering of overwrought melodrama, as is to be expected from such a bombastic crowdpleaser.James Marsh, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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Not to sound so conceited and absolute.Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
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Manji will appear as Crispin, an arrogant, pompous employee at a fancy, high-end hardware store who snubs George.Katie Campione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
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My 21-year-old grandson is a dramatic and arrogant know-it-all.Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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But while the 118 is able to save both Celeste and her mother-in-law’s final resting place, a smug Trent trips and drops the vase, an appropriate punchline to a very silly cold open.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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The smug conventional wisdom has it that voters don’t care much about abstractions like democracy or the rule of law.Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Bragging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bragging. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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