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Recent Examples of show business
Friends said Hackman came to cherish the simpler life away from paparazzi and hype of the show business machine.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
Michaels also realized the usefulness, in show business, of cultivating your own legend.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Our backtests show business quality outweighs entry price in driving market outperformance, so don’t overthink valuation timing.
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
Kevin Considine, the president and CEO of Lake County Partners, said that between new ventures like T5 and existing businesses that are both expanding their facilities and adding jobs, Lake County continues to show business growth.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
Michaels also realized the usefulness, in show business, of cultivating your own legend.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Our backtests show business quality outweighs entry price in driving market outperformance, so don’t overthink valuation timing.
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
Kevin Considine, the president and CEO of Lake County Partners, said that between new ventures like T5 and existing businesses that are both expanding their facilities and adding jobs, Lake County continues to show business growth.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for show business
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While getting a little too liberal with his wife's lorazepam prescription, Timothy Ratliff, the secret-keeping patriarch on this season of the White Lotus, groggily joins his family while wearing just a robe — then accidentally flashes them all to their amusement and/or horror.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The hour unfolds through a big location, features dozens of extras, and its focus keeps shifting between the cops, the teachers, and various groups of students who are having wildly disparate responses to the murder, from overwhelming grief to juvenile amusement.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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Jaffe was born on July 31, 1940, in New Rochelle, NY, into a showbiz family.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2025
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The scripts are spiked with sharp showbiz jabs, with inspired riffs on Steve Buscemi’s marketability and the Kool-Aid Man’s, um, genitalia.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
7 Mar. 2025
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The 2025 Oscars, held on March 2, delivered a five-year high in both total viewers (19.69 million) and adults 18-49 (4.54 rating) and ranked as the No. 1 primetime entertainment telecast in both total viewers and adults for the 2024-25 season.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Mar. 2025
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The ability to send sound that becomes audible only at a specific location could transform entertainment, communication and spatial audio experiences.—
Jiaxin Zhong,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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After Lazar died, in 1993, Carter saw a vacuum in the Oscar-party scene, and created his own, setting it up as a dinner at Morton’s, a good Hollywood restaurant with banquettes, to keep it small.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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As the writer of classic films like A Few Good Men and The Social Network, as well as the creator of TV shows like The West Wing, he was practically considered Hollywood royalty after 30 years in the business.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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This is likely due to L-citrulline's role in nitric oxide production.—
Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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Damon brings a haunted intensity to the role, and Liman, who struggled with the studio throughout production, directs with style and grit.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Nearly all painted a similar picture of Doral if Fraga’s amendment was passed: the death of nightlife.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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The nightlife concept is taking over Nightingale Plaza, at 643 N. La Cienega Blvd.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
WWD,
10 Mar. 2025
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From April 12, 2024 – May 20, 2024 the air conditioning system failed across the entire Beaumont camp, affecting all housing units, education buildings, chow hall, recreation, and administration offices.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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The launchable model is a detailed recreation of the Falcon 9 and retails for $149.99.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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This was the basis for a presentation at the Keyfactor Tech Days conference in Miami, where research first published in 2019 was used to demonstrate just how serious these factorization flaws remain.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Telemundo for years has held an event for advertisers on the first night of Upfront Week, a five-day whirlwind of presentations by U.S. TV companies to Madison Avenue.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Show business.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/show%20business. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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