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Officials heavily restricted traffic in the city center as Chinese leaders prepare to welcome their guests with the ceremony and pomp typical of Chinese diplomacy at the highest level.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
All of the pomp around the Open harkens back to tennis’s history as an aristocratic leisure; the first precursor to the Open, in 1881, was held on a grass court in Newport, Rhode Island, at the height of the Gilded Age.
—Alexandra Moe, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Right now, America’s icebreaker shipbuilding effort is offering more pomp than product.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
But also a certain grandeur, or pomp, that the monoculture used to confer — and sometimes still can.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
All of the pomp around the Open harkens back to tennis’s history as an aristocratic leisure; the first precursor to the Open, in 1881, was held on a grass court in Newport, Rhode Island, at the height of the Gilded Age.
—Alexandra Moe, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Right now, America’s icebreaker shipbuilding effort is offering more pomp than product.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
But also a certain grandeur, or pomp, that the monoculture used to confer — and sometimes still can.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pomp
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“Pomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pomp. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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