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grandstand

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


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Not prepared to give up their quest for just a fifth win on New Zealand soil, France hit back when Jalibert's 78th-minute try set up a grandstand finish.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

Team-mate Alex Coles' mind went back to 2017 - Jonathan Davies' shanked kick, Owen Farrell's long pass and Elliot Daly sliding in for another galloping, grandstand finale.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2026

Lawrence Shankland cut the arrears 15 minutes from time before Cammy Devlin set up a grandstand finish.

From Barron's Dec. 27, 2025

Kurtsinger steered War Admiral around the celebration and pulled him up in front of the grandstand.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

She and two friends were watching for the first time from packed grandstands, having stumbled onto the competition during a weekend reunion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.

From BBC Jul. 11, 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

Both coxswains could see the grandstands and the large black-and-white sign, “Ziel,” demarking the finish line up ahead, but neither was ready to make his move yet.

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

Others see his comments as grandstanding meant to stoke investor excitement for what’s being sold as a godlike technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Responding to Reform's claims that the needs of minority communities matter more, she said: "I don't think this is a moment to pit white Britons against non-white Britons", and any "political grandstanding" should be rejected.

From BBC Jun. 2, 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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