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show

[shoh] / ʃoʊ /










Usage

What are other ways to say show? The noun show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Display applies to an intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.

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The 60-minute show, partly scripted and partly improvised, comes from the mind of Koryn Wicks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“What makes this different from, say, ‘Game of Thrones,’ is it’s a much smaller world … It was important for us to show the relationship between him and Egg, who is watching from the stands.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“It stands in contradiction to our current historical moment,” Wicks says of the show.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

It was part of Ono’s solo show there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Here two human nerve cells show off their intricate network of axon terminals and dendrites.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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