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"ref": "2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in New York Times",
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"ref": "2023 April 29, Lou Stoppard, “Inside the world of the elite nanny”, in FT Weekend",
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"ref": "1887, James O'Meara, The Vigilance Committee of '56",
"text": "His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.",
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"ref": "2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in New York Times",
"text": "“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.",
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"ref": "2023 April 29, Lou Stoppard, “Inside the world of the elite nanny”, in FT Weekend",
"text": "And in turn, more complex ones: could his son have become Boris Johnson, bloviating commentator and one-time prime minister of Britain, without one [a nanny]?",
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"sense": "to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner",
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"sense": "to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner",
"word": "schwafeln"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner",
"word": "concionare"
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"sense": "to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner",
"word": "a te lungi"
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"sense": "to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner",
"word": "a te lungi cu vorba"
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