Bluffing [verb]

Recent bluff collapses in San Diego have sparked conversations about public safety on beaches.

Bluff erosion — even catastrophic bluff collapse — is a natural process that has been occurring in San Diego for thousands of years.

The genesis for the bill was the tragic August 2019 bluff collapse in Encinitas that took the lives of three people.

More people could die from bluff collapses if nothing is done.

That same year, another bluff collapse in Del Mar destabilized a set of train tracks regularly carrying passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego.

One morning, walking on the bluff, the idea came to me, with … brevity, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that the arithmetic transformations of indeterminate ternary quadratic forms were identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry.

Republicans called their bluff, scheduling a vote on the text, and Democrats either voted “present” or opposed it.

They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.

Mike grinned, remembering the time he had driven a robot brain daffy by bluffing it at poker.

He uttered a low laugh of contempt which showed plainer than words that he thought Curlie was bluffing.