exposition
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One of the country's busiest routes, it was Spain's first high-speed line when it opened in 1992 to coincide with the Seville universal exposition.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
It’s rare in these days of the Netflix exposition dump for a show to explain what it’s all about in concise moments like this.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Cole is a former cop who feels guilty about his father’s death, a backstory as lackluster as the exposition dumps that blurt it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Aaron, the court described the federal judiciary’s “supreme” position “in the exposition of the law of the Constitution” as a “permanent and indispensable feature” of American governance.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
There was the threat of fire and weather and disease: Already foreign editors were asking who would dare attend the exposition given Chicago’s notorious problems with sewage.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
Some of those popular expositions were criticized by historians for inaccurate claims and deliberate glorification of Russian rulers and their conquests.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Past expositions expos have been credited with inspiring or popularizing such groundbreaking inventions as the light bulb, the Ferris wheel and the Eiffel Tower, which was built for the 1889 exposition in Paris.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Whether you’re into sprawling expositions or smaller, subversive fairs are more your speed, there is something for everyone in the burst of art on display this weekend.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
We are in our last week of preparations for the spring expositions, and the maestra has given me a song from the aria book, a song of courage and passion: "Vittoria, mio core" by Carissimi.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
Vocabulary lists containing exposition
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Expository Writing, List 1
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