swanked

past tense of swank

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Verb
  • However, a jailhouse informant told a DA investigator in a recorded interview that Neary bragged in jail about stabbing Miner.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • During one meeting, Kazakevich reportedly bragged about his ability to make or acquire bullets for nearly every occasion.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The device sounded terrifying – an apparently new, nuclear capable IRBM, fired with multiple conventional warheads, that the Kremlin boasted could rip through European defenses.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Portuguese won seven major trophies (three Premier Leagues, an FA Cup and three League Cups) during two spells at Stamford Bridge (2004-7, 2013-15) and boasted extraordinary statistics like not losing any of his first 77 home Premier League games (a run finally ended by Sunderland in 2014).
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fort Stewart in Georgia houses the US Army’s vaunted 3rd Infantry Division, a premier fighting force roughly 20,000 soldiers strong.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Trump crowed about the ruling in a post on Truth Social.
    Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Swanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swanked. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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