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Yesterday, Barack Obama's camp was scouring the transcripts of the Palin interviews as part of what it called a bold new strategy to counter a string of Republican attacks.

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  1. adjective Fearless and daring; courageous.
  2. adjective Requiring or exhibiting courage and bravery. See Synonyms at brave.
  3. adjective Unduly forward and brazen; impudent: a bold, sassy child.
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  • The sentence in bold translates as "To appreciate the full mastery of the exposition, we must play the repeat."
  • The basic doc is text with non-intrusive characters that I normally used (* bold*, = = Chapter) in a text file. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • You see Gibson's quote (more like the AP's) is missing the part in bold which is very important. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • Yesterday, Barack Obama's camp was scouring the transcripts of the Palin interviews as part of what it called a bold new strategy to counter a string of Republican attacks. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Former Home Office minister Mr Howarth - who has also signed a magazine article calling on the party to be "bold" - told the BBC he had made his request for nomination papers to be sent out roughly two weeks ago. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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brave ·  brilliant ·  fierce ·  dare ·  successful ·  fearless

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bold:   bolder ·  boldest
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  1. Middle English, from Old English bald; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bold, bald, from Anglo-Saxon beald, bald = Old Saxon bald = Dutch boud, bold (= Middle Low German balde, bolde, adverb, quickly, at once), = Old High German bald, Middle High German balt, bold (German bald, adverb, soon), = Icelandic ballr = Old Danish bold = Gothic (Moesogothic) balths, bold (in deriv. balthaba, boldly, balthei = English bield, boldness, etc.). Hence bold, v., bield, n. and v., and (from Old High German) Italian baldo, Old French bald, baud, bold, gay: see bawd.
  2. from Middle English bolden, balden, transitive and intransitive, from Anglo-Saxon bealdian, intransitive be bold (= Old High German balden, Middle High German belden, transitive make bold, = Gothic (Moesogothic) balthjan, intransitive be bold, dare), from beald, bold. Cf. bield, v., a parallel form (from Anglo-Saxon byldan), and embolden.
 

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