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The Ti'Ko range is not only remarkable for its price, it also boasts a technological breakthrough in graphics speed.
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They also boast plenty of vitamins and minerals, chief among them vitamins C, B6 and iodine.
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It also boasts four of the five highest peaks.
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Today, this friendly city also boasts a dynamic shopping entertainment and sporting scene.
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The man promoting the park in Ulster can also boast some pretty nifty soccer skills.
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The South Slav nationalists of the nineteenth century could also boast of medieval greatness under Slav rulers.
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The complex also boasted a dock on the Hudson River.
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He also boasted that he had committed other serious crimes.
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No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear.
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Froom a, quiet boutique business, McMullen now boasts some 40-odd products.
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Similar schemes have proved successful elsewhere - one of the best-known being the Stroud Pound scheme, which now boasts 200 members.
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Once the home of only a few sushi venues, our city now boasts a virtual tsunami of these eateries.
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His team now boasts a dynamic edge, an insatiable hunger for success.
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The boot now boasts a spoiler.
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As well as its unparalleled choice of about 70 different champagnes, Oddbins now boasts around 50 tempting imitators.
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Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion.
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The mill still boasts its impressive chimney and mill clock, set in the front wall.
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In the Forties Britain still boasted a thriving film industry.
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Each luxury home boasts an indoor pool and three-car garage.
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Hank was boasting that he could drink a case of beer by himself.
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I don't want to boast , but I was the first woman ever to win the competition.
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Scott was boasting about winning the game against Melrose High.
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She's always boasting about how clever her children are.
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The golf course is surrounded by hills and boasts some of the finest scenery in the country.
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The new athletic center boasts an Olympic-size swimming pool.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, more than half of the associates can boast of perfect attendance records.
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He has an understanding equal to any public object, and possesses an energy of mind that few Men can boast of.
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It boasts a post box, stamp machine as well as an A/B button telephone.
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On the scaffold an unrepentant Jarman boasted of some sixty or seventy murders.
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She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom, which had been constructed from a third bedroom.
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The inside of the theater boasted more substantial fare.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the campaign, he made a ridiculous boast that 30 million new jobs would be created if he won the election.
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Pat regretted her boast that she would be first to reach the top of the mountain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A boast , perhaps, but who can quarrel with it?
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Feffer had a strange need to cover himself with the brocade of boasts.
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Had anyone really connected his exorbitant fundraising practices to his boasts about providing girls for Bill?
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No boast , no brag, no chest-thumping, no combat fatigues.
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The establishment's boast was that if it wasn't on the menu, then you could take your pick for free.