SWASHBUCKLING Synonyms: 131 Similar and Opposite Words

swashbuckling

adjective

Definition of swashbuckling

as in heroic

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Recent Examples of swashbuckling The term instead invokes a journey marked by swashbuckling adventure, romantic wanderlust and wide-eyed curiosity. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 Sky was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1990 and became a swashbuckling growth and innovation story in the UK television market, culminating in a $39 billion sale to Comcast in 2018. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 July 2026 The United States’ swashbuckling intensity is usually a recipe for defeat in the World Cup knockout rounds, when the winner is more often the team that holds its defensive nerve. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026 The swashbuckling, old-school crime reporter doesn't believe in computers. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for swashbuckling

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Adjective

Even so, the mooted $35 billion valuation looks heroic, said FT Alphaville.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Sep. 2026
Right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the stalwart of the rotation, certainly has performed to the level of a Game 1 starter, both this season and in a heroic World Series run last year.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of heroic

Adjective

Despite a valiant effort on the water, that milestone failed to normalize a more ever-present female presence at the Cup for almost three decades.

— Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
When a wealthy, royal woman is attacked by bandits, the two men save her and are welcomed to the castle as valiant knights.

— Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of valiant

Adjective

This caution is surprising in a writer who has elsewhere been fearless about identity and America, attentive to the country’s institutional capacity to humiliate, compromise, and implicate the people who claim it.

— Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
The fearless action and yachting photographer has spent 40 years capturing iconic images while dangling from the top of a 200-foot mast or diving beneath the keel of a racing boat.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of fearless

Adjective

Yet some intrepid public readers are unaffected by the seasons.

— Nora Krug, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2026
These beautiful, intrepid, witty and irrepressible young women and men are living witnesses to the destruction of the last vestiges of the dream of freedom of expression in Russia.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of intrepid

Adjective

Now in its fifth year, the Albies is the Clooney Foundation’s annual ceremony, which shines an international spotlight on courageous individuals who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of justice, often at great personal risk.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
At the same time, sympathetic observers feed the need of protesters to feel relevant by praising participants for being bold, courageous, uncompromising and willing to endure abuse and hostility.

— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of courageous

Adjective

Roy Benavidez, a Texas native who was awarded the Medal of Honor for valorous action during combat in Vietnam.

— Melissa Renteria, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2026
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society recommendations for the medal must be submitted within three years of the valorous act, and the medal must be presented within five years.

— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

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