grandstand
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And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 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
Lawrence Shankland cut the arrears 15 minutes from time before Cammy Devlin set up a grandstand finish.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
Slot would have been under even more pressure had Florian Wirtz's 81st-minute shot not deflected in off Nordi Mukiele to set up what Liverpool hoped would be a grandstand finish.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
He liked being a clown in a ring, with everybody watching, in front of a grandstand.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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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
Enter DJ Admin, real name Rick Jansen, who is the man tasked with keeping the fanatical orange-clad crowd in the dedicated grandstands entertained during a race weekend.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
Now with the Olympics approaching, officials were planning to add a massive set of wooden grandstands built out over the water on the other side of the lake.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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 Buck, Charles Neville
You have the extremes that call the ball on so many debates, partly I guess it’s social media, TikTok, it’s the grandstanding by members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
Both sides of parliament dismissed it as disrespectful and a failed attempt at grandstanding.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
He was grandstanding, Inej saw that, buying her time as she leapt over the slate shingles.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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