as in boasts
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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Gabrielle, the hotel’s signature restaurant, fills two stories, and boasts a private dining room, and a wide al fresco patio.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 May 2026 -
Bravo still boasts a robust slate of roughly two dozen original series, so the network weathered the cable-ratings apocalypse far better than most of its peers.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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In other words, nobody brags, bullies or buys their way into the Derby.—
Peter Keating,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Faith brags about being a social-media coordinator who lives in Murray Hill, and Grace responds to her sister’s slights about marrying into money by grilling her about her own boyfriend’s finance career.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Vaunts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaunts. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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