swanked

Definition of swankednext
past tense of swank

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • In early December, Kalshi bragged about its new partnership with CNN.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • During the State of the Union, the top federal employee bullied, bragged and rambled for 107 minutes.
    Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • In the summer, on the exact day The Godfather passed $50 million in revenue, Francis and George Lucas went down to the nearest Mercedes dealership and bought a dark blue 1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman — the same model, Francis boasted, as the pope’s.
    Paul Fischer, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Apparently to stand out as a glamorous immigrant, the woman born Hillary Hayward-Thomas often used a quirky Spanish accent in interviews and boasted about her family’s Spanish background.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • All the members of their immediate family were competitive Nordic ski racers, and their mother, father, and grandfather were vaunted polar explorers.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Was vaunted New York baseball scribe Red Foley conducting surveys like this in 1974?
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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
  • On March 4, the NRC crowed proudly about issuing the first commercial reactor construction permit in a decade — and the first approval for a non-light water reactor in more than 40 years.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Nuuk, the territory’s capital city, is emblematic of those towns, featuring brightly colored houses crowed together between a jagged coastline and inland mountains.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Swanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swanked. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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