as in nerve
shameless boldness
had the brass to demand a refund for something they had broken themselves!
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Recent Examples of brass
The whimsical brass bespectacled animal heads hanging around The Mansion.
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Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
The brass shines with Melissa Leal on trumpet, while the vihuelas, five-stringed instruments resembling small guitars, are expertly handled by Rosy Corona-Shreeves and Victoria Amador-Morales.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2024
Think tons of light oak wood and lots of earth tones, plus splashes of black, brass, and swaths of marble.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Thus, Rockets brass will get two more seasons to continue its evaluation of the first prospect of its rebuild.
—Rahat Huq, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
The brass shines with Melissa Leal on trumpet, while the vihuelas, five-stringed instruments resembling small guitars, are expertly handled by Rosy Corona-Shreeves and Victoria Amador-Morales.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2024
Think tons of light oak wood and lots of earth tones, plus splashes of black, brass, and swaths of marble.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Thus, Rockets brass will get two more seasons to continue its evaluation of the first prospect of its rebuild.
—Rahat Huq, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brass
Noun
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The pot shattered, severing tissue and nerves in Treinen’s thumb.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Severe frostbite can lead to long-term complications like chronic pain and nerve damage.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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And Big Government had the gall to charge me $35 to get in?Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2024
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The females will then find a gall, or a growth on a plant caused by mites, insects or some other kind of infestation.Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
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Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Brass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brass. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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