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Recent Examples of chest-thumping
Harris’ fortunes improved dramatically following Trump’s six-hour rally at Madison Square Garden, a chest-thumping extravaganza that the bettors reckoned would antagonize female voters on the fence.
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Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
Matthew Rhys, in his brief moments, gives George Carlin a chest-thumping, confrontational machismo.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
An eighth-inning throwing error from right-hander Blake Treinen allowed the Diamondbacks to tie the score and former Dodger Joc Pederson hit a chest-thumping home run in the ninth to give Arizona a 5-4 lead.
—Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 2 July 2024
Asian countries sometimes recoil at the American tendency to frame its support for democracy in chest-thumping, even messianic terms.
—Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024
Located beneath a tangle of freeway overpasses, the park reverberated with chest-thumping music and speeches amplified extra loud to drown out the roar of overhead traffic.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
The chest-thumping challenges from both men appeared to speak to a new form of macho aggression in a culture more associated with cutthroat industry practices than hand-to-hand violence.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
Matthew Rhys, in his brief moments, gives George Carlin a chest-thumping, confrontational machismo.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
An eighth-inning throwing error from right-hander Blake Treinen allowed the Diamondbacks to tie the score and former Dodger Joc Pederson hit a chest-thumping home run in the ninth to give Arizona a 5-4 lead.
—Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 2 July 2024
Asian countries sometimes recoil at the American tendency to frame its support for democracy in chest-thumping, even messianic terms.
—Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024
Located beneath a tangle of freeway overpasses, the park reverberated with chest-thumping music and speeches amplified extra loud to drown out the roar of overhead traffic.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
The chest-thumping challenges from both men appeared to speak to a new form of macho aggression in a culture more associated with cutthroat industry practices than hand-to-hand violence.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chest-thumping
Noun
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Payton approached the quarterback vacancy with arrogance.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2025
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How narcissism and exclusion fuel one another Narcissists often display disruptive behaviors in social settings, such as aggression or arrogance, that increase the likelihood of others distancing themselves over time.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Is there any reason for using French besides pure snobbery?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Grab Lunch at a Different Kind of Country Club Poor Man’s Country Club isn’t serving up any snobbery, but rather seafood and other plates in a no-fuss atmosphere that’s been there for almost 20 years.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2025
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Trump, who took office on January 20, campaigned heavily on the economy, vowing to reduce inflation and impose tariffs on some of the country's closest trading partners like Mexico and Canada, citing concerns over drugs, immigration, and trade deficits.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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His tariffs and immigration crackdown could push up prices, potentially rekindling the inflation that turned many U.S. voters against President Joe Biden and helped return Trump to the White House.—
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Noun
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Then, as Venus moves into Pisces, the focus shifts from self-assertion to a deeper, more transcendent love.—
Colin Bedell,
Them,
14 Jan. 2025
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This self-assertion can also subtly influence how your manager perceives you.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.—
Jim McKairnes,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There was a kind of a snobbism about it.—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
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Of course, culture shock works the other way around, too, and the image of Southerners who venture to the cold, bitter North for college only to be met by cultural snobbism and insulting assumptions about their identities is itself a stereotype.—
Nicole LaPorte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
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Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.—
Martin McKenzie-Murray,
SPIN,
7 Jan. 2025
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There is a growing push on Madison Avenue to foil the increasing disdain the average TV viewer has for traditional commercials, by devising content that is as interesting or entertaining as the shows people like to watch and binge.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
12 Feb. 2025
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Some Republicans made direct analogies between the first president and the sixteenth—to the howling disdain of many detractors.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Chest-thumping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chest-thumping. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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