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blustering

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verb

present participle of bluster

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Recent Examples of blustering
Adjective
Without the distracting histrionics of the blustering Republican nominee, the Vance-Walz face-off could prove more substantive than the two presidential debates that took place this summer. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blustering
Adjective
  • Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is set to appear Thursday at an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania after Manhattan prosecutors filed a slew of new charges related to the brazen attack.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Chin Jinping, 61, could face anywhere between no prison time and five years behind bars as well as the possibility of losing his U.S. citizenship after admitting his role in the brazen Chinese spying scheme.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Prosecutors also said that some of the violent pornography Heuermann owned included methods consistent with the injuries to Mack's body and how she was bound with ropes.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
Adjective
  • His disregard not just for the conventional norms of the office but, more importantly, his disregard for the truth in matters both personal and presidential add fuel to what was already a pretty raging fire.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Newsletter Sign-up The aggressive forecasts add to a raging debate among energy executives and analysts over what the coming decades may hold for the industry.
    Sarah Kent, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
Adjective
  • Miranda, however, wears a sheath of strident red skin-tight sequins, with a crimson damask coat arranged just so over her shoulders.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • What attracted people in from the mid-nineties through 2011, when Giant Robot published its final issue, was its mixture of arrogance—the sense that it was made by people with a strident sense of taste—but also curiosity.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • These winds can cause significant damage, increase the frequency of wildfires, and make firefighting efforts more challenging, while also posing aviation hazards and creating turbulent surf conditions.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The special finds Iglesias in his 27th year in comedy, reminiscing on the perils of life: from dating, to home break-ins, to turbulent plane rides.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Usually, those scenes focus on Bridget Everett’s Sam, whose brassy voice can punch a hole into any heart.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • To do so, this uses a blend of ultra-violet pigments that counteract yellow and brassy tones to ensure your color is always up to your standard in between salon appointments.
    Iman Balagam, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Not only are storms now stormier, Dubbeldam says; droughts are also drier.
    Christine Ro, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Travel nationwide over the holiday weekend may be impacted by a stormy Northeast, which is getting hit by the same weather that passed through the Bay Area last weekend, Behringer said.
    Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Blustering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blustering. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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