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grandstand

[gran-stand, grand-] / ˈgrænˌstænd, ˈgrænd- /


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A baseball grandstand burned down last year, and in March, a lumber mill that employed about 30 people caught fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

"For us Formula 1 fans, it's really great to have a race at home!" says Rodrigo Gil, a 30-year-old engineer from Madrid, as he watches free practice from a grandstand at Turn 8.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

But it wouldn’t be honest for me to grandstand that our contributors never use a tool like AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Tournament of Roses is providing more than 1,000 free grandstand tickets for fire victims to view the parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

By ten-thirty, the grandstand was filled to capacity.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Anyone who has never attended the race may be left to wonder: With all the pomp in the grandstands, how does anyone get a clear glimpse of the finish line?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The cheapest tickets in the grandstands are around $35.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Umbrellas are prohibited in the parade grandstands, and spectators are encouraged to leave them at home if they’re standing elsewhere along the route, said Candy Carlson, a spokesperson for the Tournament of Roses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

On Saturday the pair powered through a sustained shower of razz from the grandstands at the Ryder Cup on New York’s Long Island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

When they were sure that they had won, the boys rowed slowly past the grandstands to polite applause.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

And he has grandstanded constantly about Santos’ turpitude on TV.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

“Van Damme certainly grandstanded around the set – he let everyone know who the star was,” he recalls.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2018

"Performing for you is my life," Rivers grandstanded at the end, "and no one has the right to take it away from me."

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014

Worse, members of the committee grandstanded about the testimony, about Hill’s motives.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2014

You have grandstanded and posed as the debonair adventurer, until it’s come to be second nature.

From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck

In fact, they also create ample opportunity for disruption, grandstanding and subterfuge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

According to Kyslytsia, these dealings are business-like and generally free of the sort of political and historical grandstanding seen elsewhere by Moscow.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

Instead, officials “chose grandstanding instead of the normal process” and arrested Williamson at home Wednesday, despite her being seriously ill and in need of a liver transplant, Scott said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

But it is so firmly grounded in truthful and complicated detail drawn from Mr. Dunne’s actual experience that it makes its powerful moral argument without any need for grandstanding or preaching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

I figured he was just grandstanding, sucking up the media’s attention because he could.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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