as in to boast
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
even the noblest of fellows have been known to vaunt a bit
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Recent Examples of vaunt
Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
While people are generally gracious about missteps, recent surges in tourist numbers are starting to strain that vaunted hospitality.
—Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.
—James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025
Kardashian had been vaunting it to her with more than 300 million followers on Instagram.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Fort Stewart in Georgia houses the US Army’s vaunted 3rd Infantry Division, a premier fighting force roughly 20,000 soldiers strong.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
While people are generally gracious about missteps, recent surges in tourist numbers are starting to strain that vaunted hospitality.
—Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025
The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.
—James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025
Kardashian had been vaunting it to her with more than 300 million followers on Instagram.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaunt
Verb
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This single-story home boasts a generous living space with four bedrooms and two baths.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Both nations boast vast petroleum reserves and extensive mineral wealth, long positioning themselves as anti-imperialist adversaries of the US.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But the show’s engagement with this material now often feels perfunctory, more interested in displaying cleverness or swagger than in advancing character.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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The old Miami was built on swagger.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Putin has bragged that Oreshnik's multiple warheads plunge at rates of up to ten times the speed of sound and can't be intercepted, and that several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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But is that really something to brag about?—
Jay Reddick,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
4 May 2023
Noun
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The show brought blockbuster buzz for its first season from the start and the Emmys ate it up, whether because of Hollywood’s love for stories about itself (with A-list guest stars) or the television industry’s love for stories that mock the self-importance of movie people.—
Andrew Dalton,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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We’d sometimes get threatened, and that only inflated our self-importance.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Now the babble about them is back.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
David Velasco,
Harpers Magazine,
18 Dec. 2023
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