splendor
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“I’ve never been in a city that feels like L.A., that has the vibe of L.A., that has the visual splendor and squalor,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
More than 400 years later, and 250 since this nation’s founding, our “New World” doesn’t seem so new, having grown old through centuries of terror and splendor alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
His account on Friday night of Mr. Salonen’s five-movement clarinet concerto “Kinēma” was an alchemic blend of technical acumen and tonal splendor in one of the composer’s most immediately enjoyable works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
As if these athletes are somehow the pinnacle of military splendor.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
It was too dangerous to do what she’d done before, to take part of the splendor in Adiah’s body away again so that she could be human; Koffi suddenly wished she could.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
It appears to have flourished roughly 3,000 years ago, boasting splendors even more exquisite than those of China’s heralded ancient dynasties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Donny Hathaway had already been expounding on the splendors and indignities of American life by the time he got to the Troubadour in West Hollywood in the last week of August 1971.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Goodly splendors await upon your victory. Love, Mr. Milchick."
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
Black people, in this telling, could be proud of their roots in the ancient kingdom that built some of the world’s greatest splendors.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
Italy will return to the splendors of Rome, said the major.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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