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swanked

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past tense of swank

as in vapored

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Maya’s owner, Laura Lee Yourex of Costa Mesa, illegally registered her pet to vote in California, then bragged about the act on social media, the Los Angeles Times and other media outlets reported.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Seaver, who announced Parton’s death at the age of 80, bragged about the deal in Haiti in that message, court records show.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026

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On Tuesday, Kansas City officials boasted of $570 million in direct spending, which includes lodging, dining and retail data across nine counties in Missouri and Kansas during the duration of this summer’s soccer tournament.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Apple itself has long boasted about using machine learning to help design and improve its software and devices.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 28 Oct. 2026

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And they’ve previously been vaunted for their digital strategy this cycle of putting out very high-quality livestreams of his rallies.

— Danielle Hewitt, Vox, 26 Oct. 2026
Since a 2-nanometer A20 Pro chip is vaunted for the phone, that may provide the extra capability.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

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Jeezy, Teyana Taylor, Jermaine Dupri, Usher, Swizz Beatz, Rihanna (who briefly out-swaggered Jay), Pharrell, and Beyoncé, backed by the Mayyas, a Lebanese dance group.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
In San Ángel, those men swaggered around town, smoking marijuana and blasting banda music from their flashy trucks.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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Palm fronds littered the ground and roosters crowed, their calls breaking the quiet.

— Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Those cops, police chief John Noland crowed, have been electrocuting suspects for roughly two years at this point.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026

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