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verb

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Recent Examples of brazen
Adjective
But the tastefulness of Kogonada’s realization keeps the brazen absurdities of plot masked in sleek understatement rather than gleefully exaggerating them. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025 Would Ballmer try something so brazen? Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025 After inconclusive indirect talks during the Biden administration and Israel’s increasingly offensive regional military actions in the wake of Hamas’s brazen October 7 attacks, Iran, according to some estimates, crept to within days of being able to enrich enough uranium for a bomb. Vipin Narang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025 His brazen effort to take over the Federal Reserve by removing a governor who has not been fully investigated nor charged with any crime is unprecedented and has congressional Republicans worried about overreach. Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brazen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brazen
Adjective
  • With it, Pierpaolo explores the space between fabric and body, where the air between them becomes a third dimension and a vital component of their construction to create bold and unexpected shapes.
    Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Cowboy meatloaf is just like your regular weeknight dish, but with bold, smokey swagger.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These religious leaders are confronting a wave of violence.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On April 19, dental surgeon Akintunde Bowden, 41, was shot and killed at his Brown Deer apartment complex after confronting a neighbor about noise.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Fortunately, Snow White’s newfound enlightenment does not deny her the possibility of romance, although princes are now strictly off-limits; her love interest here is a fetchingly impudent bandit, Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is leading a scrappy rebellion against the Evil Queen.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Palace, 19 unbeaten, were slicker and sharper, despite their UEFA Conference League trip to face Dynamo Kyiv in Poland on Thursday.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Remember, under the current format, those were all teams coming off a wild-card series win, facing a team with most of the previous week off, just like the Tigers and Mariners.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The initial idea was Woltemade and Yoane Wissa would dovetail minutes wise, with the former Brentford striker expected to start more often in the short term to allow the German a period to acclimatise.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And speaking of which, Christmas is right around the corner, and we parents are already stretched thin budget-wise.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To find the killer, Sherlock Holmes and Watson will have to brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms the newest heirs.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The story set in Minnesota and shot in Finland, was a first for Thompson who totes a gun while braving a deep freeze.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Beautiful, not perfect; Alex can be rude, insolent, and subject to wild emotional swings and failures of decorum and logic.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The movie’s startling originality is in its spirit, its insolent ironies.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will forever tell tales of his audacious 60 off just 65 balls.
    Sam Dalling, New York Times, 7 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

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“Brazen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brazen. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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