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[fan-fair] / ˈfæn fɛər /


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In 2024, StubHub shuttered the customer-service campus it had opened to fanfare seven years earlier in Draper, Utah, cutting 297 jobs, according to a state layoff notice.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

A revealing dispatch from across the pond: Kim Kardashian’s underwear empire has expanded to the U.K., to much fanfare.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Lewandowski made his first trip to the city in June and was met with a fanfare of 'welcome to Chicago' billboard messages from the drive from the airport.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner established his Situational Awareness hedge fund to great fanfare in 2024.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

My own farewell, more gentle than my rebuke, was lost in the noise of a loud fanfare that signaled the king’s coming.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The state banquet is the spectacular showstopper of a state visit, a glittering feast with speeches, royal toasts, trumpet fanfares and fancy food and wine.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2025

It pays homage to classic Hollywood scores about ancient Rome, namely Miklós Rózsa’s “Ben-Hur,” with brass fanfares and stately processionals.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2024

Some blocos are powered by behemoth sound trucks known as electric trios, others by small fanfares.

From Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2024

But under Mälkki’s baton, and with this orchestra — Sibelius’s sound world etched in its bones — “Finlandia” was newly disarming, modestly dignified in its touching harmonies and iron-willed fanfares.

From New York Times May 10, 2023

Horns blew fanfares as Lionstar and Lady Lyanna pushed out from shore, moving downriver to clear the way for Seaswift.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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