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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swanking
Verb
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The advertisement opened with a backside shot of a man clothed in Levi’s jeans, a western shirt and leather gloves, swaggering up to a pair of saloon doors.—
Jack Armstrong,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026 -
Don the swaggering employee needs to learn a lesson about gender identity.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The winning grade gets recognized with a special hot breakfast or bragging tags for their backpacks.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Kelsey Pomeroy once overheard her husband bragging about her to one of his engineering coworkers.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Cars Land today still has some of that ageless energy, boasting a vintage rock ’n’ roll soundtrack and a strip of a street filled with colorful neon, its lights, especially at night, beckoning guests to come closer.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Tradwifery carries an undercurrent of trolling—a middle finger raised at anyone antagonized by women boasting about catering to their husband’s every whim.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
Verb
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The cockerel had been crowing for a good while before that, but today Archie was literally up with the lark.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Carrel and company are all stellar and worth crowing about but plucking out a few side stories might well make this a smoother, more tonally consistent show.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Swanking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swanking. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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