as in bold
displaying or marked by rude boldness
a brazen demand for special treatment just because she's rich
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as in to confront
to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage
a filmmaker willing to brazen the criticism that such a violent film was sure to provoke
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Recent Examples of brazen
Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
Ukraine’s brazen, multifaceted attack on Russian military bases over the weekend was more than a year in the making and demonstrated its creativity in picking up battlefield victories against a much larger and better-resourced military.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 2 June 2025
Joya remembers her late husband’s brazen attitude in making that partnership happen: Herb had walked into the school district’s headquarters and asked to speak to the top person in charge.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 7 June 2025
The vicious crime wasn’t a brazen robbery or politically motivated attack.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
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Adjective
Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character’s return is a masterpiece in its own right.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
Ukraine’s brazen, multifaceted attack on Russian military bases over the weekend was more than a year in the making and demonstrated its creativity in picking up battlefield victories against a much larger and better-resourced military.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 2 June 2025
Joya remembers her late husband’s brazen attitude in making that partnership happen: Herb had walked into the school district’s headquarters and asked to speak to the top person in charge.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 7 June 2025
The vicious crime wasn’t a brazen robbery or politically motivated attack.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brazen
Adjective
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Life-size silhouettes of each beachgoer will be placed throughout the grounds, each one featuring bold and surprising facts.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
30 June 2025
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Her makeup included bold brows, lined eyes and a rosy lip.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
Verb
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In late 1996, Cochran finally got a chance to confront Butler.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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Seconds later they are confronted by the Front Man, who has traded his Player 001 green tracksuit for a menacing gray ensemble and a black mask.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
People.com,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almost impudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar. 2025
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In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.—
Edward P. Joseph,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Dec. 2016
Verb
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Her values now inform her mission to work within healthcare to improve equity and uplift populations facing similar barriers.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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Other parts of the country will also face similar issues due to the high heat.—
Daniel Peck,
ABC News,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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Those who are successful in the job market learn how to embrace tradeoffs to make wise choices.—
Michael B. Horn,
Time,
24 June 2025
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Washington eventually adopted more sensible approaches that mobilized the resources of key allies, developed a wiser balance between conventional and nuclear tools, and assumed a less confrontational attitude toward Moscow.—
JENNIFER LIND,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
Verb
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New Yorkers are braving the heat to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary election, which is set to be a nail-biter between Democratic Socialist state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
24 June 2025
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McCreight, 37, joined about 200 others who braved the Saturday afternoon heat to protest the court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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One’s insolent, calling him lame and old, and the other affectedly infantile, but both are exhausting in their own way.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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The government, in an insolent filing on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Around the same time, a new and more audacious idea emerged: to outlaw war altogether.—
Oona A. Hathaway,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The Wall of Sound was their most audacious attempt: a 60-foot-wide, 75-ton scaffold of nearly 600 speakers designed to deliver pristine, distortion-free sound to both the band and audience.—
Noah Eckstein,
HollywoodReporter,
23 June 2025
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“Brazen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brazen. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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