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'boasted' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is the past tense form of the verb 'boast', which means to talk with excessive pride or self-satisfaction about one's own achievements, possessions, or abilities. You can use it whenever you want to describe a person or a thing that has expressed such excessive pride or self-satisfaction. Example sentence: The athlete boasted about his long list of awards and accomplishments.
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"Believe me when I tell you that we are going for it this time - we want to be successful in Europe, and the money we are raising now will take us there," Murray boasted of a team that, by then, contained Arthur Numan, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Mols.
Around a year ago, it boasted of 100 million "activated" users – the number of people who have ever used its app – and hasn't updated that figure since.
He boasted of cutting the public sector workforce by 10% and leading the nation in private sector job growth for five our his eight years in office.
Its organizers boasted that their six-month effort successfully created a large ground operation in Iowa and New Hampshire, amplified Warren's voice and showed the Democratic party that Warren's beliefs resonated with many Americans.
Jun recently boasted about the number of patents filed by Xiaomi around its smartphones, displaying patents awarded for the camera on its new Mi Note phablet during its announcement presentation last month.
Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.
In 2010, with the Euro-crisis deepening, stagnation entrenched and unemployment still to peak, David Cameron boasted that Britain was "out of the danger zone".
The Chatterley gamekeeper boasted of education at a grammar school in Sheffield.
The jobless father-of-two even boasted to one 14-year-old who threatened suicide unless he left her alone: "Call the cops... they won't trace me".
They said their own private polling showed an average nine-point boost when the candidate was named and boasted that many of their MPs had strong reputations at local level.
For much of his career the 6ft 3in, 17st 2lb Collins boasted the biggest biceps in the All Blacks squad, even reaching the stage where, at 52cm in circumference, it was felt they were starting to interfere with his ability to tackle people properly.
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