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swanking

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present participle of swank

as in vaunting

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Here’s Steve Jobs, swaggering around to a different Drake song with a bottle of champagne in his hand (371,000 views).

— Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026
And in the event that someone wasn’t aware of what Children of Blood and Bone was, the panel did its job, promising an exuberant, swaggering epic with a charming cast to inhabit it.

— Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

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With a generation of listeners boasting shorter attention spans and having a glut of releases at their disposal, projects tend to get discarded within weeks, and this kind of move can help alleviate that.

— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026
Tailored for grand-scale leisure and entertainment, a double-height, skylit entry foyer boasting a sweeping artisan ironwork staircase leads to formal living and dining rooms.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2026

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Newsom has been crowing about a 9 percent drop in unsheltered homelessness over the past year, though the numbers are in dispute.

— Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
Finally, a mystical Rabbi arrives and shocks the king and queen by taking off all his clothing, getting under the table and crowing like a rooster.

— Josh Penn Soskin, Variety, 16 July 2026

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