as in to boast
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
even the noblest of fellows have been known to vaunt a bit
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Recent Examples of vaunt
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
Putin has vaunted the potential of its critical minerals for a deal between Moscow and Washington as its push for Ukraine's resources founders, following the White House spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
And having a candle in your house symbolizes that vaunted L.A. optimism.
—Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
And that’s as vaunted a quality as any bottom-six player could have for Berube.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Kardashian had been vaunting it to her with more than 300 million followers on Instagram.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
Putin has vaunted the potential of its critical minerals for a deal between Moscow and Washington as its push for Ukraine's resources founders, following the White House spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
And having a candle in your house symbolizes that vaunted L.A. optimism.
—Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
And that’s as vaunted a quality as any bottom-six player could have for Berube.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaunt
Verb
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The Islanders do boast one excellent defensive option in Pelech, and Romanov has matured into a solid two-way D who can eat more than 20 minutes a night.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Priced at $26, the long-lasting color boasts a lightweight formula that promises to not feather, pill or bleed.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Cowboy meatloaf is just like your regular weeknight dish, but with bold, smokey swagger.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Daniels after both of his TDs sought out the TV cameras just outside the end zone and merrily mocked FSU’s famous war chant, an echo of the swagger of Canes teams past.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Even her mom had let go of her dream of her daughter becoming a nurse, now bragging to her friends that her little girl was working for the NFL.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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However, a jailhouse informant told a DA investigator in a recorded interview that Neary bragged in jail about stabbing Miner.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
4 May 2023
Noun
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The show brought blockbuster buzz for its first season from the start and the Emmys ate it up, whether because of Hollywood’s love for stories about itself (with A-list guest stars) or the television industry’s love for stories that mock the self-importance of movie people.—
Andrew Dalton,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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We’d sometimes get threatened, and that only inflated our self-importance.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
David Velasco,
Harpers Magazine,
18 Dec. 2023
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“Vaunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaunt. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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