grandstand
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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
And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Lawrence Shankland cut the arrears 15 minutes from time before Cammy Devlin set up a grandstand finish.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
George Ford's conversion and penalty pushed England 11 points clear, only for Rodrigo Isgro's converted try in the final minute to set up a grandstand last play.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Pollard slid slowly to the ground in front of the grandstand.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
There are two spectator grandstands at Piccadilly and on Cockspur Street, close to Trafalgar Square.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
View-blocking umbrellas are prohibited in parade grandstands and along the route.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
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
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
Previous versions have often been sleepy affairs with more backslapping and grandstanding than serious policy action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
The U.S. and Malaysia have largely enjoyed warm relations over the years, notwithstanding occasional rhetorical grandstanding, especially on the part of former longtime Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
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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