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How to use the word audacity in a Sentence?

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Gretchen Whitmer continues to take cues directly from her union bosses who shut schools down, kept our kids locked down at home longer than necessary, and created an education crisis in our state. She stood on the debate stage and blatantly lied that Michigan schools were only closed down for 3 months, her running-mate Garlin Gilchrist even had the audacity to say we must first take care of the adults in our education system - total disregard for kids and parents.

Tudor Dixon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It just breaks my heart, to know that someone has the audacity to point a weapon, and shoot someone for as little as too much mayonnaise on a sandwich, they were just model employees.

Willie Glenn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Smocks, from the safety of his hotel room, had the nerve to call people trying to defend the Capitol that day' cowards,' he had the audacity to call the rioters' patriots.'.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The only thing that they had done wrong in the eyes of the Taliban ... is the fact that they were born girls and they had the audacity to dream of doing something.

Robert McCreary

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What about the little girl who just wants to kick a ball around a field and wants to do that well, and has worked hard to do that at a world class level who finds herself suddenly in jeopardy only because she just wanted to play a sport and had a passion for playing that sport? the only thing that they had done wrong in the eyes of the Taliban ... is the fact that they were born girls and they had the audacity to dream of doing something.

Nic McKinley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Can you imagine the audacity of a man who continues to do this after being arrested ? it's like he knew that he wouldn't face any repercussions. That he was protected. That he wouldn't be fired.

Evelyn Yang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That's what's very painful is knowing that what happened to me could have been prevented, can you imagine the audacity of man who... continues to do this after being arrested? It's like he knew that he wouldn't face any repercussions, that he was protected.

Evelyn Yang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Having the audacity -- because that's what it is -- to exhibit self-sovereignty has always been a privilege reserved for men, especially white men, yet here is Meghan exhibiting this 'audacity' and it's being ... pushed forward by a white man who happens to be her husband.

Natasha Eubanks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are a group that really uniquely knows that electability is self-determining and that oftentimes it's the people with the boldest vision and the most unlikely candidacies early on who can really shift the field, elizabeth Warren really has the zest and the grit and the gumption and the audacity that we loved that President Barack Obama really embodied.

Sara El-Amine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

General Motors got a tax cut. General Motors got a bailout. And then they have the audacity to move a new car that they're going to produce to Mexico.

Representative Tim Ryan from Ohio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is unprecedented. If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight. As a co-equal branch of government, we should not and can not allow this to continue, democrats are angry. They are angry our nation's chief law enforcement officer and his deputy had the audacity to decide the evidence didn't support charges for obstructing an investigation into something The President didn't do.

Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They have a smart strategy around building power with the audacity of their vision, critics belittle them and question their authenticity but they are brave and are doubling down.

Ellen Dorsey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor, more than a little bold —at age 37 — to seek the highest office in the land.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Can you imagine the audacity to take an African American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage ? everybody was against him. He knew what he was going against, and he said,' You know my dear, this has got to be perfect.'.

Arthur Mitchell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Usama had good relations with my late father, thus we don’t support the American narrative, declaring him a terrorist, he did jihad, to implement Sharia around the world. So, for us he is an Islamist warrior. We title our library after his name with audacity.

Abdul Aziz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this -- a certain audacity -- to this announcement, i know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were outraged, we couldn't believe a local establishment patronized and supported by black people would have the audacity to say something like that.

Marshall Allen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have an adult mother who had the audacity to leave her one-year-old in the custody with several other children.

Sean Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the most egregious thing about Rubio coming to Michigan is the fact that he has the audacity to do so in Detroit when, if he had had his way, Detroit would have gone bankrupt. Without the auto bailout, this state would be in a depression, under Rubio's plan, we would have been left for dead. Rubio and other GOP candidates have a plan that favors the rich over the middle class.

Brandon Dillon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are not re-doing, rebooting, having the audacity of trying to improve upon anything, we are completely different people, we're like a distant cousin. We just want people to have an enjoyable ride.

Christina Applegate

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To think they would have the audacity to think that it’s OK to write a thought like that in an email says a lot about what is going on over there.

Attorney Casey Yontz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is one of the most egregious emails I’ve seen in my career, to think they would have the audacity to think that it’s OK to write a thought like that in an email says a lot about what is going on over there.

Attorney Casey Yontz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Nancy Northup

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a guy who has the audacity to be talking about schooling anyone when it comes to foreign policy and not just about Israel and nuclear weapons, the thing about that statement, a guy in the last year called ISIS, the jayvee squad, his administration continues to call Yemen a success story, Secretary of Bill Clinton gave Russia a reset button.

Scott Walker

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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