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Attorney General Rob Bonta, who sponsored the legislation, was especially boastful.
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy rap about their lavish lifestyles and success, with playful, boastful lyrics that reflect the flashy side of Atlanta’s trap scene.
—Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 17 June 2024
Aang, instead of acting like an actual child who wants to have fun despite the demands placed on him by his gifts, tends to just talk about the importance of his duty, and Sokka is merely a drip instead of a boastful idiot who doesn’t expect the women around him to outmaneuver him.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
Perpetrators now routinely share proof of their crimes on social media; Hamas’s boastful posts of grisly murders mirrored broadcasting tactics used by the Islamic State, Mexican drug cartels, the Islamophobic Christchurch shooter in 2019, and American insurrectionists on January 6, 2021.
—P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy rap about their lavish lifestyles and success, with playful, boastful lyrics that reflect the flashy side of Atlanta’s trap scene.
—Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 17 June 2024
Aang, instead of acting like an actual child who wants to have fun despite the demands placed on him by his gifts, tends to just talk about the importance of his duty, and Sokka is merely a drip instead of a boastful idiot who doesn’t expect the women around him to outmaneuver him.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
Perpetrators now routinely share proof of their crimes on social media; Hamas’s boastful posts of grisly murders mirrored broadcasting tactics used by the Islamic State, Mexican drug cartels, the Islamophobic Christchurch shooter in 2019, and American insurrectionists on January 6, 2021.
—P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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