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Six example sentences with temerity, each labelled with its topic.
The rookie had the temerity to shoot a fadeaway over the league's best defender with four seconds remaining.
Basketball
Crossing the strait in an open boat took the kind of temerity that most sailors reserve for calm summers.
Travel
She answered the board's hostile questions with a temerity that left the chairman rearranging his notes in silence.
Business
A first-term councillor had the temerity to challenge the mayor's budget line by line, and the chamber fell silent.
Politics
It took real temerity to walk into that meeting and ask the incumbent's biggest customer to switch to a six-month-old company.
Startups
Socrates had the temerity to question a general about the meaning of courage in front of the man's own troops.
Philosophy
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