revamping

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They played to the paparazzi, vamping at high-profile events including the Kentucky Derby and the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner, and hammed it up in “caught off-guard” moments at the supermarket or over lunch.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

But at times the strain of keeping up the brisk timing of the movie to fill two hours of stage time on essentially a single set results in comic vamping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva are among the stars vamping through it.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

But Oliver might argue that one man's vamping is another's display of showmanship: "I'd rather be dead than boring!" he declares.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2022

Several times every year I had to choose between mortally hurting her feelings, and watching her elaborate "vamping" through eight or ten costly reels.

From They Call Me Carpenter by Sinclair, Upton