as in nerve
shameless boldness
had the brass to demand a refund for something they had broken themselves!
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Recent Examples of brass
Raw-finish fronts were used atop IKEA cabinets: the lower units are black with brass handles while those mounted on the wall above the work area are in gray and without handles.
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Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
The interiors are a paean to nautical good taste, decked with antique oil portraits, brass chandeliers, and white wainscotting.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
On Madison Avenue, behind a large brass door just north of 61st Street, there’s a portal to old New York—martini New York, town car New York, the one with all the shoulder pads and creative-class expense accounts.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
The whimsical brass bespectacled animal heads hanging around The Mansion.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
The interiors are a paean to nautical good taste, decked with antique oil portraits, brass chandeliers, and white wainscotting.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
On Madison Avenue, behind a large brass door just north of 61st Street, there’s a portal to old New York—martini New York, town car New York, the one with all the shoulder pads and creative-class expense accounts.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
The whimsical brass bespectacled animal heads hanging around The Mansion.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brass
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The pot shattered, severing tissue and nerves in Treinen’s thumb.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Severe frostbite can lead to long-term complications like chronic pain and nerve damage.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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And Big Government had the gall to charge me $35 to get in?Peter Rubin, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2024
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The females will then find a gall, or a growth on a plant caused by mites, insects or some other kind of infestation.Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
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Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Brass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brass. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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