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gasconaded

verb

past tense of gasconade

as in boasted

to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess the Baron Münchhausen was so notorious for gasconading about his purported exploits as soldier and hunter that his name has become synonymous with the telling of tall tales

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Kennedy boasted about the administration’s moves to downsize the childhood vaccination schedule and reshape a key vaccine advisory board — steps that have since been halted by a judge.

— Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Lehrer has boasted in private about his connections with the Netanyahu family.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

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During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Ballmer once bragged about how many toilets are in the Intuit Dome, and that feels like a metaphor for the state of his Clippers.

— Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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