display
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Display applies to intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. 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.Example Sentences
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Transferring the ship to a custodian outside of Newport for display and preservation was also "something the council is not looking to do".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Don’t expect a display of sanity and cohesion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
But that has infuriated opposition councillors, who say a permanent display for the ship would boost tourism.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Perhaps, Huang’s position as AI’s biggest spokesman was best on display late this summer amid growing populist pushback to AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
She smelled several bars of soap, sidestepped a display overflowing with bouncing balls, and examined some dangling spider plants before she found the shelf with cornmeal.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
He demands ostentatious displays of loyalty that are often insincere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
The software calculates how much material would vaporize across different parts of the asteroid's surface and displays the results as a heat map.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Friggieri said veterans need to be able to plan around key dates, but he said he was not calling for a ban, because his organisation understands the cultural importance of firework displays.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Emergency services have long recommended organised displays as the safest and often most impressive way of enjoying fireworks.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
He’s not the sort for loud displays in restaurants.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
The film will be displayed in its original 16:9 format on the Cosm screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Campaigners are also anxious to see the ship remain in Newport, rather than being displayed at a museum facility elsewhere in the future.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
A prototype was displayed during Monday's opening events.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Eva and her husband use every part of the carcasses, even the heads, which are displayed like a “grotesque gallery” of mounted trophies in a Victorian gentleman’s club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
In the 1830s Gauss realized that each complex number—numbers that have real and imaginary parts, like 1 – 2i—can be displayed on a Cartesian grid.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Federal transportation regulators are looking into reports that Waymo’s driverless taxis passed school buses flashing red lights or displaying a stop sign, despite a software fix that was supposed to correct the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
In Laayoune, the territory's largest city, footage showed people celebrating, waving Moroccan flags and displaying portraits of King Mohammed VI.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The room offers an organized setting for displaying clothing, footwear, and accessories, with its glass-front storage giving the space the appearance of a private luxury showroom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Oschin Center seeks to tackle that question head-on by displaying a genuine space potty, extracted from the Endeavour herself and displayed in a glass case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Washington recognized the improvement, congratulating Hamilton for rendering him “with less egotism,” meaning the Hamilton draft covered the wounds, or at least prevented the president from displaying them too conspicuously.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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