as in huffing
to talk loudly and wildly
the rude customer blustered and yelled threats about lawsuits, but eventually left
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as in brazen
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Recent Examples of blustering
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Verb
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
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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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Videos posted to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu showed hikers shoveling snow off buried tents in blustery whiteout conditions.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Even when the outside temperature is a blustery 30 degrees Fahrenheit, heat still moves into a refrigerant that sits at 0 degrees Fahrenheit.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The footage, obtained by French broadcaster BFMTV, purportedly shows what has been called one of the most brazen art thefts in recent memory.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Urgent search for thieves behind brazen jewelry heist at the LouvreOfficials said the gang struck shortly after opening on Sunday and took just minutes.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Preoccupied, Laz ignores his phone and proceeds with his work, where a ranting and raving Arlo declares that God is going to punish him.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Once again, the debate in the book is not over whether or not people should be violent.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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As a result, many legends are connected to its violent past, and its dungeon, in particular, is said to be haunted by tortured souls.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Arriving in January, the California Post will be Murdoch’s transplant of his right-leaning tabloid the New York Post, replete with shrill headlines and randy gossip.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
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One option is to simply double down on the existing approach and become shriller.—
Robert G. Eccles,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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
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Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.—
Paula Newton,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Blustering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blustering. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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