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adjective

audacious

showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

In a sentence

Six example sentences with audacious, each labelled with its topic.

  • Their audacious plan was to rebuild the whole payments system in a year with eleven engineers and no revenue.

    Startups

  • Down by three with a second left, she took an audacious shot from beyond half court and made it.

    Basketball

  • The audacious design hangs the museum's upper floor over the river with nothing visible holding it up.

    Architecture

  • Hannibal's audacious march over the Alps with elephants stunned Rome, which had expected an attack by sea.

    History

  • The audacious bet against the housing market looked foolish for two years and then paid off many times over.

    Finance

  • The audacious proposal to land a probe on a comet took ten years to fly and worked on the first try.

    Science

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