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as in blustery
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as in brazen
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as in huffing
to talk loudly and wildly
the rude customer blustered and yelled threats about lawsuits, but eventually left
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Recent Examples of blustering
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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
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Then during the day, temperatures will be in the 20s, with blustery northwest winds bringing the wind chill into the single digits.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Monday in the Philadelphia region brings quieter but still blustery conditions in the wake of the cold front.—
Andrew Kozak,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Some coaches did complain after reporting particularly brazen cases of tampering, pushing for punishments and seeing nothing happen to offenders.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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Few industries have been as brazen in their capitulation as Big Tech, which has dismantled its content-moderation systems to please the current administration.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
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Or have all of his brain cells corroded away after years of huffing his own scent?—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Through Blazy’s gaze, what looks outlandish is often revealed to be truer to itself than, for instance, the nearby tourist restaurants with candles burning down over beef bourguignon and accordions huffing in the corner.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Safavi said the blackout coincided with violent confrontations in several regions.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Parallel societies in certain urban areas and rising violent crime statistics linked to some migrant cohorts in countries such as Sweden and Germany led to the dramatic rise of populist and patriotic parties across the continent, from France to Italy to the Netherlands.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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What's more, this door alarm features three sensitivity levels and emits a loud, shrill sound that will instantly scare an intruder away.—
Stephanie Gray,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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When Nosferatu showed his corpselike face, the Wonder Morton’s Vox Humana (human voice) and concert-flute pipes buzzed together in a shrill cluster.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Calling the show a gay hockey romance doesn't quite capture just why fans are raving about it.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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Leonardo DiCaprio leads the film alongside Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn, leaving critics, including our own, raving all awards season.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
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Greene was among a small but strident group of Republicans in Congress who refused to move on.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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For two years leading up to the fatal shooting, as police archive video shows, Lorincz constantly called 911 to make false allegations about her Black neighbors, reserving many of her most strident complaints for children who played near her house (on property they were entitled to enjoy).—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Dec. 2025
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“Blustering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blustering. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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