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Recent Examples of audacious The jailbreak itself, described as audacious and preventable, prompted scrutiny of the Orleans Justice Center’s infrastructure and oversight. Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 But still, this year, the Catalan set himself an even more audacious task. Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 The president has secured buy-in from key Arab and Muslim states, his efforts energized by his criticism of Israel’s audacious and unsuccessful effort to assassinate top Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya in an airstrike in the Qatari capital of Doha. Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025 Then John Galliano arrived with another Libra eclipse in 1996, upping the theatrics with the era’s most audacious runway shows and giving the world talismans like the saddlebag. Maya Alzaben, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for audacious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for audacious
Adjective
  • That connection—spiritual, communal, and generational—anchors Portrait, Joy’s third studio album and her boldest statement yet.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Alex Iniguez Our NHL staff shared one bold prediction for each team.
    Sam Settleman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The obligation is now ours to keep her spirit alive by transforming our compassion into action, and our hope into habit so that the world can become a more courageous and kinder place.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Chicago Med is an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city’s state-of-the-art trauma center and into the lives of the courageous doctors, nurses and staff who hold it all together.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For Johnson, Crunchyroll Manga adds an extra layer of discovery for adventurous readers.
    Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Urchin, which releases in theaters this Friday, is as adventurous as his on screen work.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In other hands, this would cue a standard disease-of-the-week weepie, but Coixet keeps the tone lightly wistful and wise, and trains her attention ever more minutely on Rohrwacher, who along with her character, seems to blossom gradually under this steady gaze.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Point guard James Harden had a quiet night scoring-wise with five points, but handed out 11 assists.
    Janis Carr, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Hall is charged with reckless homicide, with modifiers of domestic abuse and use of a dangerous weapon, records show.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Its insularity has shielded it from the reckless overdevelopment that has scarred much of the nearby Costa Blanca.
    Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists and veterinarians teamed up for a daring yet delicate operation to remove a plastic strap from around a sea lion’s neck.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • European authorities have accused Russia of brazen violations of the region’s airspace, including with recent incursions by drones over Poland and fighter jets over Estonia.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have posted on their websites that this is Democrats’ fault, a brazen push into politics that breaks with past neutrality.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That is just a fraction of the workers harmed; that number is merely the number brave enough to speak up, risking all their future jobs.
    Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In mitigation, Tottenham have built a squad that does possess the players to link the midfield and attack, but with James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski both out injured for the coming months, there is a need for more midfield players to be braver when progressing the ball.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Audacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/audacious. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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