display
Usage
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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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The replica included a podium on one side with wood paneled furniture flanked by gold curtains to display where lawmakers would traditionally sit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
This display is described as a “tiny slice” of the Huntington’s archive on Otis Reed “Dock” Marston, a historian and river runner who made it his life’s goal to collect information on the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The building in the nation's capital that houses the Kennedy Center continues, however, to display Trump's name on its facade for the time being.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
It also praised the "plucky" display by the US, "who people thought had come to Rome as whipping boys but in fact have gone off the pitch with a very respectable score".
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Besides, Lisa-Marie Anne currently has a full schedule of gazing adoringly at my brother over the canned tuna display at the general store.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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