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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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For you, is the premise of the show predicated on the idea that someone like you would never get that part, or is it that, of course you should get that?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

And so the show is just so thoughtful and finds all these really inventive ways of exploring that idea.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

And the show is also meant to be kind of a real love letter to the South Asian communities of London.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

You might as well believe the BBC when it says that this do-si-do is about “ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

“I do hope so. I should like to show him…I think he would be interested.”

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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