Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swanked
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Their deaths occurred roughly seven weeks apart last year — Harper, 18, was gunned down at a house party in Bay Point by intruders who allegedly bragged about it online afterward.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026 -
This low-budget-looking spot was way more successful than the company's previous 2000 Super Bowl ad, the one that bragged about wasting 2 million bucks while showing a monkey dancing on a bucket.—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
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In 2012, for example, a state lawmaker boasted that Pennsylvania’s new voter-ID requirements would allow Mitt Romney to win the state.—
Marc Novicoff,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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Trump once again boasted foreign investments of $18 trillion — a figure that has been disputed by many economists, and the White House’s own data.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Was vaunted New York baseball scribe Red Foley conducting surveys like this in 1974?—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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Instead, seniors Ian Alexion and Grant Darmofal spearheaded the Blue Devils’ vaunted triple-option attack and kept Fairhaven rolling all the way to a Division 6 state title Thursday night at Gillette Stadium.—
Greg Dudek,
Boston Herald,
5 Dec. 2025
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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
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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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While some in Kansas have crowed about poaching the team from Missouri, other residents are more critical of the deal’s generous terms for Chiefs ownership.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Swanked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swanked. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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