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Recent Examples of triumphalism
One reason to avoid triumphalism is that the war’s effect is still not clear and could in the long run be the opposite of what Israel seeks.
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Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
Despite the White House’s triumphalism about the shuttering of penny production, the move is belated in global terms: Australia and New Zealand and Canada have all discontinued the equivalent currencies a decade and more ago.
—Antoinette Burton, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Inside, the breathless triumphalism continued nonstop.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2025
Supporters would not respond well to such triumphalism if defeats come more regularly, and as his predecessor Gary O’Neil found, such feel-good sentiments do not take long to dissipate.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 May 2025
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Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
Despite the White House’s triumphalism about the shuttering of penny production, the move is belated in global terms: Australia and New Zealand and Canada have all discontinued the equivalent currencies a decade and more ago.
—Antoinette Burton, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Inside, the breathless triumphalism continued nonstop.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2025
Supporters would not respond well to such triumphalism if defeats come more regularly, and as his predecessor Gary O’Neil found, such feel-good sentiments do not take long to dissipate.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triumphalism
Noun
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Risk-taking isn’t about bravado.—
Hao Lam,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The bluster and bravado seemed completely out of step with how Red State lawmakers are heading into a flu season when risk of Covid steps up.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Mitchell prides himself on being a no-nonsense, no-bulls*** kind of man, but his attitude can sometimes come across as arrogance.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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This arrogance is not just limited to tech titans.—
Christian Josi,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
Isaac Butler,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2023
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Kilts and sculpted skirts moving with swagger, proving gender was never the point—attitude was.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Bezos peacock swagger is letter-perfect Travolta.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Unconstrained, Iran’s nuclear program continued to expand as the anti-American bombast and Holocaust denial of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made diplomacy much more difficult.—
Vali Nasr,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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For all his bombast online, for instance, Marcus has said that today’s chatbots are a legitimate breakthrough, just far from the breakthrough; for all of Altman’s petulance, OpenAI’s latest large reasoning models rely on new approaches not so dissimilar from Marcus’s own, decades-old ideas.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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The first singles from Carey’s 16th album are dripping with braggadocio with her inimitable voice wafting like smoke.—
Matthew Schnipper,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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This display exposes the campaign’s braggadocio.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
1 Sep. 2025
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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 July 2025
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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