pageantry

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That it was live television and just this pageantry of people congratulating themselves, congratulating each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

On television, on one of the three channels then available to us, we watched the pageantry and the pomp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

From the minute King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped onto the White House South Lawn, US networks dumped their standard diet of political warfare and breaking news for something rare: pure pageantry.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

They use his great-grandmother’s silverware, her lead-crystal goblets, and her china, with its pageantry of gold leaves.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García