swaggered

past tense of swagger

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Recent Examples of swaggered Attendee’s workday blues than completely vanished thanks to Billboard‘s Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year GELO, who swaggered about the stage and ignited the party with the littest cuts off his debut album, League of My Own. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swaggered
Verb
  • The platform had hit ten million users just two weeks after an invitation-only launch, Larry boasted.
    Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • Musk has boasted SpaceX’s Starship for years as the firm aspires to ferry cargo and humans to the moon and Mars, and at about 400 feet tall, the rocket is considered the largest ever.
    Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • The Cécred founder strutted out on stage in a plunging black pinstripe blazer jacket paired with matching pinstripe capri pants.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 11 July 2026
  • America's Next Top Model star Kayla Ferrel Onder once strutted the runway for Tyra Banks' judgment on two different cycles of the reality competition series.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Jason bragged about using emotional manipulation over his dead mother to trick Angela.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
  • Plenty of others bragged about how their normally less-than-healthy eating habits would protect them from the diarrheal scourge.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Also this week, a judge determined that Mortensen’s roommate, Cru Eaton, has stalked Paul, which formed the basis of an injunction against him.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026
  • According to prosecutors, a group of gunmen later tracked Bowman to Los Angeles in 2022, then stalked and ambushed him at a gas station near the Beverly Center, firing at least 18 rounds from multiple weapons, including a machine gun.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutor Joel Seidemann strode briskly up the length of the courtroom’s center aisle with an accordion file under one arm and a line of eight younger colleagues rushing to keep up.
    Laura Italiano, NBC news, 20 July 2026
  • Dressed in a graphic T-shirt and trousers to start, Kelly strode through Washington Square Park with eye-catching bleached tips.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • As Darrell Royal, the old football coach at Texas once said … one of his players pranced into the end zone and started beating on his own chest.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026

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“Swaggered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swaggered. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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