There's some hubris in this kind of talk--but Ghosn is entitled to be boastful.

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Clean Team is hygienic, ensures privacy, safe and has provided me something to be boastful about as these days it is the only predictable and dependable service I get.

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Coming from any other newspaper columnist, that would be a complacent or even boastful way to introduce a collection of previously published articles.

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Although these still-sealed documents apparently contain nothing to contradict McVeigh's boastful confessions, it was widely assumed that his lawyers would be granted more time to study them.

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Two years ago, after watching a series of rather too jocular and arguably too boastful news conferences from administration leaders on the coming war, I said that they seemed to be suffering from mission inebriation.

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