How To Use Bragg In A Sentence
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He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
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Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army?
THE FAMILY
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Smart lads, they hadn't flaunted the loot, bragged about the heist, or written a rap song memorializing the event.
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He's a politician now, which means that bragging and whoring his story is the job description.
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You are my friend and I love you man but winning 1 game out of the last 6 by only a last second bucket is nothing to bragg about.
Missouri just spanked the Ks. basketball team last night. Would it be polite to rub it in to a fellow gun nut blogger.
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For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
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Every year around this time, college admissions officers can be heard humblebragging about how painful it was to reject so many qualified applicants.
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The requisite clowning, braggadocio and hip-hop historicism are in place and well articulated, and an unprecedented, post-9/11 political pique has surfaced.
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An Arab village in Israel now holds the world's record for the largest plate of hummus, and bragging rights over Lebanon in what is known -- or what has become known as the hummus wars.
CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010
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This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers.
Times, Sunday Times
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While homophobia isn't new to pop, why would the Grammys celebrate someone who as recently as October used a slur in bragging to The Jamaica Observer about his war against gays?
Grammys goofed up nominees in a few award categories
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It was always a great laugh listening to all the young single men on a Monday morning bragging about their weekend exploits with the usual embellishment on one or two stories!
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Finally it came down to Jason and my sister, and I'm more than ecstatic to report that my sister creamed him, taking home the trophy and bragging rights, which she just happened to use on me for the rest of the week.
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The clip showed him spitting vile lyrics bragging about murder.
The Sun
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The broad Bragg peak arises from a cholesterol monolayer embodying poorly ordered two-dimensional crystalline domains, each containing ~ 200 molecules in a proposed trigonal arrangement.
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Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
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Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives eschews deep bass and braggadocio, working organic beats and polyrhythmic blasts with electronic effects.
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According to police affidavits unsealed two weeks after the fire, other residents told police that McLeod had talked about burning down the building earlier that night and bragged about having "torched" it afterward.
TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
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I have stupidly bragged that I could turn out some doggerel about anything; given the time.
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Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled
Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Chris Moyles; In Our Time
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The conflict between Bragg and the lawmen is one of iron wills, and all the actors involved have more than enough chops to involve an audience deep enough into their macho standoff.
“Appaloosa” as nostalgic as they wanna be » Scene-Stealers
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Grandparents were happily bragging about their grandkids.
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But to find he is openly bragging about it rubs salt in the wound.
The Sun
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Bragg was forced to issue his own proclamation to the men of Kentucky, but the Kentuckians were not in a suasible mood.
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He later bragged that he was the only performer ever to get a complex comic scene right without needing a second take.
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The screenplay was written in nine whole days, bragged the credits.
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They go back to their big houses in their big cars, they do not have to worry much about local pride or bragging rights.
The Sun
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What do you call a bunch of chess players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?
The Sun
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Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
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And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
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He bragged that the course which he claimed to be one of the best in the country, was in good shape and no excuse would be given by any golfer for failing to perform well.
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A novel slim FBG (Fiber Bragg grating) sensor device and its application in the real-time dynamic shape detection of colonoscope are presented.
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It is all about local bragging rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
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Now has bragging rights over his dad.
The Sun
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BS Private Equity stake Gruppo Banca Leonardo, the boutique investment bank started two years ago by Italian banker Gerardo Braggiotti, has taken a 20% stake in Italian midmarket private-equity firm BS Private Equity, with an option to buy the rest.
Banca Leonardo takes
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Look, I don't want to be all braggy here, but I am about to come into some money.
Archive 2009-05-24
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We find that the quantum smectics are rather different from the usual classical smectics in that the density correlations along the direction of the stripes manifest a Bragg-Glass type behaviour whereas those in the transverse direction are infra-red divergent.
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At still other times, the two sounds fight for bragging rights, slugging it out between our ears.
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A nightwatchman later overheard him bragging about his duplicity and arrested him.
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Though Marley Marl's legendary Juice Crew had repped The Bridge in a braggadocious back-and-forth with KRS-One in the 80s, Nas now painted a more intimate picture of life in and around America's most expansive public housing development.
That Illmatic magic: revisiting Nas's masterpiece
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Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
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Even so, it's almost always Tommy who gets home first, outsprinting the others up the hill, and then bragging about it the rest of the night.
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In the past two weeks no fewer than five countries have been bragging about their nuclear weapons.
The Sun
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I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug.
Auntie joanna writes
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Written with an air of braggadocio, Love's story is, in places, of questionable veracity.
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Anthony Curio bragged the whole way how he’d taken Suzy Micheli to the drive-in only he always called the drive-in the submarine races the night before, popping her cherry on the vinyl seat Jimmy and I were sitting on.
Kings of Colorado
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At least one tweet was pretty braggadocious; it casually mentioned "my third sailboat" with an accompanying photo.
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But as far as technophile bragging rights go, it's pretty unbeatable - for now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well what a surprise. 11am Radio 4 gives Billy Bragg a full half hour to prattle on about some obscure 1930s pacifists/ conchies / commune dwellers.
Open thread
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What's more, he had bragged while in prison about having a stash of money buried near Bowden, and it's possible someone killed his family while trying to get at it.
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That doesn't mean bragging about the tough 10-kilometre run you managed to squeeze in during the lunch hour or how much weight you can bench press.
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New entrants have a shrinking sales pool to swim in – and News International can't launch a bragging, soaraway Sun on Sunday without looking crass and cynical.
News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary
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Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality.
Arabian nights. English
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Horse's Ass blogger David Goldstein bragged that "Peter personally reached out to me" for fundraising help.
Sound Politics: Seattle nutroots trying to buy Eastern Washington congressional seat for nutty candidate
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By saying what I do is great – isn†™ t that bragging and don†™ t people dislike braggers?
How to Sell with a Clear Conscience
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The weakness of productivity is not just a statistical curiosity or a matter of international bragging rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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We bragged that, unlike the chemists, any physicist could teach any undergraduate physics course.
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Girls Hunt Too!!!" and "We've Got Braggin 'Rights," the bimonthly is similar to "the grown-up magazines, but minus the grown-up language," says Kiihnl.
Teens Launch HunTeen Magazine for Young Hunters and Anglers
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Dawg, purely my opinion, but I think it's because they bragged back home and when they first got here that they were going to learn Spanish and integrate and interact in the local (Mexican) community and now find themselves unable or unwilling to make the necessary changes or to study enough to actually speak a little Spanish … more than más cerveza at least … so they are embarrassed, yet won't admit it.
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If McCain hated war, with all the experience he is bragging about, he should have known to clearly read the intelligence report before voting to send our troops off to Iraq.
McCain releases debut general election ad
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For those of you who do not know me personally, it is not a matter of braggadocio.
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‘This braggadocio, this bravado, it's all a cover-up,’ he said.
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Multipliers are the biggy for linking tricks, and after combing through a course a few times, players can locate and nail these for bragging rights.
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The Persian array was a vast conglomeration of incohesive elements, imposing in aspect but weak in determined battle: the army which Bragg was to meet was composed of patriotic volunteers, every man impelled by a thorough belief in the righteousness of his cause.
Reminiscences of the Civil War
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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I suggest we duz teh Jerk for teh firsty-braggers.
Self-conscious pole dancer kitty - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Beverley Nichols claimed he was a sex-crazed cad who "stank" and bragged of seducing a 12-year-old girl in Thailand.
Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc
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They bragged about their exploits in Gawthorpe and this, naturally, upset the villagers.
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After one season with the New England Patriots, Johnson has decided to go back to his old, braggadocious self.
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Its slopes are relatively untrodden, making it ideal for hikers who'd rather earn seclusion than bragging rights.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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So I would also much rather see someone "poach" a few small trout from private waters, that see someone legally kill a top spawner for bragging rights.
Does Catch and Release Reduce Trespassing Offense?
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This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Herman said proudly that he was among the writers of the Prodeo bulletin published by the boys, while Ardi bragged about his ability to change cement sacks into colorful motorcycle miniatures.
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Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.
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Some integrated optics devices can be made based on the interdigital electrooptic bragg diffraction grating.
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I keep the trim moving and the power up to try to cushion the actual touchdown, and most of my landings are acceptable, if not always worth bragging about.
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In 1513 Conrad Mudt (Mutianus Rufus, supporter of Reuchlin and friend of Melanchthon) saw and heard Georg Faust at Erfurt; he wrote to a fellow humanist that this “immoderate and Foolish braggart,” calling himself the “demigod from Heidelberg,” before astonished listeners “talked nonsense at the inn.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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It would be a little rash to dismiss Bragg and his Terminals as just another troupe of pop-sensitive, heart-on-sleeve folkies.
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He is a charming braggart who through accessorizing makes his three uniform wardrobe look like twelve.
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At my small town college the off-campus housing was very limited, which meant the go-getters got bragging rights on all the great apartments while the ambitious-yet-lazy people, like myself, were saddled with the dregs.
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In interviews he has always bragged about his success.
Times, Sunday Times
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The braggart turns every question into an answer that makes himself or herself look incredibly good.
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However, beneath the partly tongue-in-cheek braggadocio on his first solo LP in seven years, he clearly feels he has something yet to prove.
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His braggadocio, then, is leavened with insecurity.
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Marty chatted with Fabio, and by "chatted," I mean bragged.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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Paulson, who has large positions in gold via the GLD ETF, bragged that in addition to maneuvering our investment strategy based on where we are in the economic cycle, a large part of our success has been based on anticipating market events before they are generally recognized.
Billionaire Movers: Google Guys, Buffett, Paulson And More
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I was buzzing after it and we got the local bragging rights.
The Sun
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So who will have bragging rights in the shortest form of the game?
Times, Sunday Times
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While you might view your BF's silence as a negative because it appears he's less-than-proud to be dating, it beats a kiss-and-tell braggart.
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Time for maneuvering and backstabbing, that is, if Dork Vader ever stops bragging about his victory.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Lies and Whispers
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The braggart Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker.
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In interviews he has always bragged about his success.
Times, Sunday Times
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And that might be why I'm not too braggy here - you may not know me well enough to know I'm not all bitchy, and you can't hear my tone.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Camden council, where I live, never tires of bragging of how it evicts people with rent arrears.
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Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son, Lawrence.
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Oh, I could hit my head, and then for good measure, Melvyn Bragg's head too, lustrous barnet and all, against a brick wall.
Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' – interview
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It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.
Safety in lakeside
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Though they may get carried away with internet-facilitated braggadocio, they also do the work that ‘respectable’ public figures don't have to.
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He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7
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There are few phenomena more scenic than the mountains at sunset, and what better way to get an eyeful than on a highway bike ride out to Cochrane or Bragg Creek?
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John says: orca: We would have been better off keeping our drone use a secret instead of bragging to the press aboutthem.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
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A new demodulation method of fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensing signal, which is by making use of the monotonic decline section of an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light source, is proposed.
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Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer.
Vanity Fair
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Yoder says he received no pay, but Bragg covered his rent in a New Orleans sublet and covered hotel, gas, and meal expenses whenever Yoder worked on a story that required him to travel.
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And you know, I often don't even worry about these awards and so on because well, it seems awfully braggy, but it's funny, we were talking about this one night, some of us Toronto crew, about blogging without ego, and I think this captures that same idea, so I'm going to pass it on to some of them.
Archive 2009-06-01
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When talking about the Beanpot, the term bragging rights'' comes up a lot because the four schools that compete in the annual tournament are all located in Boston and three are Hockey East rivals.
Boston.com Top Stories
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It's easier to sell a new handset on its features, especially where those features might aid bragging rights.
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While I kind of bragged about the books I got, I didn't mention the mousepad.
Bye Bye New Mousepad
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But, if you speak too loudly, you may be perceived as overbearing, bossy aa braggart.
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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A Methodist minister serving as an Air Force chaplain bragged about the support his wife gives him while he is recalled to active duty.
Gulf War II
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Company president Luke Nosek, a cofounder of PayPal, bragged that Halcyon would ultimately sequence complete human genomes in ten minutes for $100 or less, and at an astonishing 99.9999 percent accuracy.3 The scientific cofounders, the Andregg brothers, stretched out single strands of DNA on a sheet of carbon, attaching platinum atoms to the G bases and osmium to the T bases.
The $1,000 Genome
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Actually, being a rapper might just be a strong plus in portraying the early, braggadocious Cassius Clay.
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Chicagoland natives have always been seen as "braggadocious", but it's not our fault ... there's just so much to be proud of!
November 2008
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Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
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One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.
Frindle
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Some researchers suggest that boys seem to have higher self-esteem because they hide their insecurities behind bragging.
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At about the same time, I will be in another plane, bragging about you to my poor seatmates, who will soon put on their headsets, having had enough of a mother's gushing pride.
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Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack.
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We bragged that we hunted tigers - often finding their giant paw prints on the jungle paths.
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Fatboy, boss hogg, the drugster flip flopping like a beached whale after he realizes some may hold him to his braggadocio words.
Think Progress » Limbaugh Now Says He Won’t Move To Costa Rica — Will Just Go There To Use Its Public Health System
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The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul.
Ethics
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It soon became apparent that his "confessional" tweets were less about being humble and more about humblebragging.
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He was caught hiding in an airing cupboard after bragging that 'incompetent' counterterror cops would never nail him.
The Sun
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Not so braggy is Janeane, who is simply "trying not to emote the dread that's boiling up in my stomach.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
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Or maybe some emails bragging about how ACA is going to skin these dummies over at Paulson and that IKB is going to hop on the bus and take Paulson to the cleaners?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Goldman Fraud Suit
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She received a handful of furloughs, but never traveled farther than back to her home in Alabama until her discharge, which took place at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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The good news is there are initiatives under way to intercorporate survival training near the level of what goes on near Fort Bragg today into flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2002
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It is all about local bragging rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was probably, in part, because the men bragged more about their performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, McCain has bragged about his consistent zero-rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Elizabeth Shipp: The New Olympic Sport: McCain Takes the Gold in Freestyle Flip-Flopping
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Now has bragging rights over his dad.
The Sun
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Often at the end of a day when they had successfully charged a suspect he would lapse into a kind of braggadocio, the thin, frangible coating of allure that he often put on would disappear totally, and his pugilist walk would become more pronounced.
Bottled Spider
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That should guarantee bragging rights for a while.
The Sun
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Most of the mercenaries were dispersing, slowly walking, although for some it was more of a stagger, down the streets bragging to one another.
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Most of the soldiers were a dull lot, either sullen and silent, not wishing to be where they were, or braggarts, constantly telling all who would listen of their strength and bravery.
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There definitely is some virtue in keeping the affair low-key, in not raising the level of expectation, for in case of failure, nobody accuses you of bragging.
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The Briton, who trained in Thai kickboxing, or Muay Thai, was known for "getting drunk and picking fights and bragging that he's invincible," Anukul told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
FOXNews.com
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After all my bragging about beads, Jim sent me a nice e-mail and asked me if I'd be willing to take a commission to bead him a bracelet.
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Several gang members in Los Angeles, some known for statements of braggadocio, said they are going to riot if the scheduled execution takes place.
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You bragged to the Gilmartins when the four of you went to the theater together that night.
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'I came out top in the test,' he bragged.
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I learned this from classmates bragging about their amorous conquests of the night before.
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After 29 games, the Mavericks bragged they had committed the league's fewest fouls.
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And a good deal of his braggartly extrovertism was a cover for this.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matters get decidedly steamy and a tad too confessional, though the lyrical twists reveal depth and vulnerability alongside the braggadocio.
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Immanuel's braggartism as to his many love affairs is only another aspect of the Renaissance habit, which is exemplified so completely in the similar boasts of Benvenuto Cellini.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
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While the author admits these flaws in varying measure, at some point, her self-deprecating accounts of her romps seem more like gimmicky braggadocio rather than self-reflective criticism much less exculpation for region-wide offenses.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
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I'm not being braggadocious about this, but I play well.
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He also bragged about lobbying on a multimillion-pound contract that was in official 'purdah'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Louis was listening to the man's bragging, his manner growing increasingly frosty, and Beth appeared excruciatingly uncomfortable.
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They go back to their big houses in their big cars, they do not have to worry much about local pride or bragging rights.
The Sun
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I must confess there is an element of braggadocio : a marathon is something that will be accomplished only by a small subset of society.
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I suppose not, although quite frankly I never liked the braggart.
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He sat rebuked in this man's presence -- this man whom, within the hour, he had called boaster and braggart, liar and coward.
Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
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Three points - and a whole lot of brotherly bragging rights.
The Sun
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She bragged that she could run faster than me.
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Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.
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There, I was invited to stay at Peter Buck's house, and staying there was Nikki Sudden who has since sadly demised, and Billy Bragg; it was quite a wild scenario.
Mike Ragogna: The Decemberists Video Exclusive, Chatting With John Wesley Harding, Thomas Dolby and Stephen Kellogg, Plus Dancing With StevieMix
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So who will have bragging rights in the shortest form of the game?
Times, Sunday Times
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The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
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He was also recorded bragging about plans to vandalise court buildings.
The Sun
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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People want to look like her and the high-low is really important because otherwise it feels braggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usher also bragged he had 80 watches and hundreds of suits.
The Sun
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Nanostructures that coherently scatter have been referred to as thin-film reflectors, multilayer reflectors, quarterwave stacks, Bragg scatterers, and diffraction gratings.
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Of course his personal life was his songs; to a fault, Lennon wrote about what he knew, however skewed by bitterness, confusion, regret, braggadocio, or even peace and love.
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The Gineral was takin 'a ride with a southerner one day over his farm to Bangor in Maine, to see his crops, fixin mill privileges and what not, and the southerner was a turning up his nose at every thing amost, proper scorney, and braggin' how things growed on his estate down south.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02
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Bragg, 30, of San Marcos, who works as an independent contractor for a mortgage bank.
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The movie has fascinating echoes and anticipations of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about braggadocio and fear among the officer classes.
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The man then bragged about his manhood.
The Sun
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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That track managed to convey grit without being overloaded with the crotch-grabbing braggadocio which is an all too integral (and boring) part of hip-hop.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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One would think that with so much money to be made in the theater industry, the biggest of these braggers would automatically stake a claim as the foremast in the theater world.
“Godfellas” Prays For Religious Controversy…and Gets It
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We would have been better off keeping our drone use a secret instead of bragging to the press aboutthem.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
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There's merit to both viewpoints but DotD08 squanders these possibilities in favor of shakycam braggadocio and ghoulish gimcrackery that played a lot better in PLANET TERROR 2007, which wasn't even that good either.
Stick a fork in it
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Wednesday are destined for a comfortable mid-table finish and their fans were thrilled to have the local bragging rights.
The Sun
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What no science fiction writer before the moonshot anticipated was that the Space Race would start out as a contest between two military powers for ascendancy in the 'high ground' of outer space, which then devolved into a prestige project, whose prohibitive costs were bourn for such imponderable goals such as national bragging rights.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
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I don't want to seem braggadocious, but people keep telling me it's the most famous house in the country, after the White House.
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What is more important to today's deer hunters, killing the biggest buck in the woods, to get bragging rights, having an adventu | Field & Stream
What is more important to today's deer hunters, killing the biggest buck in the woods, to get bragging rights, having an adventu
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I feel like there's a lot of humblebragging that goes on with anyone affiliated with this show.
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‘I'm worth US $100 million,’ bragged the oilman.
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That is the prescription of Stephen Bragg, a former vice chancellor of Brunel University.
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He bragged about his great running skill and said he could catch anything.
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If the other side had won the boasting and bragging would have been unbearable.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Now I had but one fear, namely, that they would unlace me; so that it must be understood that my reply was not uttered in braggadocio but was meant to forestall any possible unlacing.
Chapter 11
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But this memoir is full not of braggadocio, but of self-doubt, as well as wit, humour and passion.
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Not only dat, but teh firsty braggers is startin to come bak.
GODBUNNY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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His males are braggarts whose emotions stay on the surface: if they have interior lives, Walsh isn't interested in them.
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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What do you call a bunch of chess players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?
The Sun
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It commented: ‘It turns out that for all his braggadocio, Dr. Venter was right.’
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Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
