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Noun
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Then, with much pomp and celebration, the sheet is ripped away and the car revealed for the world to see.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025 -
Thomas Jefferson converted the State of the Union speech into a written message, regarding the pomp of the speech as too monarchical (sadly, the speech was revived by Woodrow Wilson for exactly that reason).—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Black heroes of the 555th did participate with their White brothers-in-arms for the 1946 victory parade in New York City even before the Army and the rest of the military was desegregated.—
Sabrina Clay,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Each spring for more than 60 years, this colorful parade has celebrated Hellenic culture with traditional costumes, music and dance.—
Jennifer Day,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 July 2022
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Last week, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine and Gergiev prepared to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, the usual mummery was unfolding.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2022
Noun
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Marvel recently announced a line-up of 27 A List actors who will star in the super hero extravaganza headlined by Robert Downey Jr.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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The fashion extravaganza has a great public program too with events throughout the city open to both locals and visitors.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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The couple met in a fitness class in 2007 while attending Auburn University, where Lindsay, a former beauty queen in local pageants around her home town of Dothan, Ala., was a cheerleader, and Robert, a Georgia native, was a long snapper on the football team.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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In ancient Persia, the charming Jewish orphan for whom the book is named wins King Ahasuerus’s beauty pageant and becomes queen of a massive empire, while keeping her Jewishness secret.—
Tal Fortgang,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But ADs come and go at UNM with little fanfare, and the football team has two winning seasons in the last 17.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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When the Biden administration changed Title IX enforcement to allow men to compete with women, NFHS announced that change to great fanfare and provided its members with explicit instructions on complying with the policy.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The red carpet, staged across from the theater’s towering marquee, had its own spectacle.—
Antonio Ferme,
Variety,
5 Apr. 2025
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Buckle up for this globe-trotting, CGI-heavy adventure that combines apocalyptic spectacle and family drama in the least pretentious way possible.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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His passion for the history and pageantry has already earned him roles in the gunfight shows, first as silent characters—a bartender, a gunshot victim—and then as Billy the Kid at the Oriental Saloon Theater.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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As the next monarch, William holds the key to the pomp and pageantry Trump admires.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
7 Mar. 2025
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“éclat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9clat. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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