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fanfare

[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

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

His arrival in government was greeted with much fanfare by some in the Labour Party and described as "radical" and "innovative".

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Closing Sohrab’s door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the mid­dle of the night.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

But all the fancy regal fanfares in the world on Tuesday might be drowned out by bigger realities.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2023

Bley’s influential body of work included delicate chamber miniatures and rugged, blaring fanfares, with a lot of varied terrain in between.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2023

"Nothing is impossible for you," Putin said in a speech to a group of women who were then invited to step up and accept bouquets from him as trumpet fanfares sounded.

From Reuters Mar. 8, 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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