marquee

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Recent Examples of marquee For another, a Jennifer Lopez joint is always more about her presence — her name on the marquee, her face under the big bright lights — than her skills in vanishing inside a character. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025 For her part, MacArthur on Friday focused the prosecution argument on the marquee count in the indictment: the racketeering conspiracy. Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025 The list also includes a load of both marquee and slightly more underground names including John Summit, Peggy Gou, Daft Punk, Avicii, Disclosure, Rüfüs Du Sol, Odd Mob, Anotr, Hugel and many more. Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025 The lack of a marquee name is good news for this year’s holdovers, freeing up space on ballots limited to 10 selections. C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for marquee 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marquee
Noun
  • There’s also a one-bedroom guesthouse that Schlessinger soundproofed and used as a studio, plus a three-car garage topped by a guest or staff apartment and a fitness pavilion with a gym and guest suite.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In an open pavilion, daily dance and puppetry shows happen, the most beautiful of which is a Sunday-morning practice dance, where performers receive instruction from masters — a privileged, intimate thing to witness.
    Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The dome atop Ford Field removes weather as a variable and makes this pick more cut-and-dried than the other three this weekend.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
  • After a Russian missile blast shattered its windows, doors and glass dome in 2022, the WMF enlisted the U.S. State Department to help restore the building, with assistance from local government agencies.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Numerous people across western North Carolina are still sleeping in tents and campers more than 100 days after the storm hit the area in the early morning hours of Sept. 27.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Testing tents in McLaren's Monsoon chamber remains a career highlight, while pitching reviews of exercise bikes a week before lockdown 1.0,...
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The weight of the snow that had collected atop the theater caused its flat roof to buckle, splitting it down the middle and onto the movie house’s concrete balcony.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Toro gave the seven-story townhouse a grand makeover including an indoor pool, roof terrace, and artisanal furniture.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From the gingham bed canopy to the adorable wicker dog in the living area, the suite felt more like an extension of someone’s fabulous Southern home than a basic hotel room, capturing the warmth this area is so well-known for.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The sensors either hung in the canopy or embedded themselves in the ground depending on type.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As an average-sized adult male, my head was uncomfortably hitting the ceiling while seated there.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Another fence Republicans need to clear is the debt ceiling.
    Tobias Burns, The Hill, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Penn 2 has further been transformed with The Bustle, a structure suspended 50 feet high serving as a giant awning with LED lighting and art displays and setting a grand entranceway to Madison Square Garden, Penn Station and Penn 2.
    David Moin, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Adorned with twinkling lights and white trees all throughout the space, the venue’s decor also incorporates poinsettia flowers, life-size Santa replicas, giant Christmas ornaments on the space’s flower awning, gingerbread creations with faux snow accents on tables.
    Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Marquee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marquee. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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