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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He had opportunities in four of the five evening frames, but a missed black off the spot in the final frame typified an error-strewn display.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The items will be initially kept at the museum's collection centre in Nantgarw - where they will be cared for and made available for research and potentially prepared for public display.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Japan Society presented avant-garde, multidisciplinary Japanese dancer Hiroaki Umeda’s dazzling multimedia “assimilating,” a display that well overpowered the Met’s attempts at video and movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
That new dynamic was on full display Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
But she weaved through the aisles, ducking to avoid the rain, and on the hunt for a peculiar plant that would most likely be hidden from display.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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