éclat

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Noun
  • Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Day 2 of the second Trump administration contained a less pomp but continued circumstance.
    The Hill, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The dance, which is said to bring good luck, will be followed by a parade.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Talk-show host Tamron Hall helped Walt Disney World kick off its Black History Month observation by visiting the Magic Kingdom theme park with family members. Hall and five relatives, including her son, rode through the park as part of a parade with Disney characters on Saturday.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.
    New York Times, New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Last week, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine and Gergiev prepared to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, the usual mummery was unfolding.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s grandmother (Yun) flies in from Korea and insists on an all-out wedding extravaganza.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This all produced an extravaganza of surreal visuals and interplays.
    Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 1984, Williams became the first Black woman to win the Miss America pageant.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But Greenwood’s affiliation with Trump stems from an association with Greenwood's wife, Kimberly, who was the executive director of the Miss Tennessee USA pageant in the 1990s, when Trump co-owned the Miss Universe Organization.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Secret ballots are cast and counted, in an arcane tallying system, and a victor is announced, to great fanfare.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Key Details: Ford announced the redesign of the Expedition last fall to much fanfare for seemingly unending family-friendly features: new panoramic front screens, rear headrests designed to hold phones or tablets for viewing, and work lights in the cargo area and on the roof rails.
    Scotty Reiss, Parents, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Never part of a gallery, Hendry started showing her work in custom environments that became spectacles, beginning with Monochrome, a kind of life-size dollhouse in which each of seven rooms was decorated in a single, blaring color.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But her husband, who some blamed for orchestrating the attention-grabbing spectacle, suggested it was intended to steal thunder from the awards show in the zeitgeist.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Keith Tozer, Major Arena Soccer League commissioner, praised the pageantry and level of competition that was on display Saturday.
    Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Trump's first day back in office was full of the pageantry that accompanies the United States' transfer of power from one leader to the next, but with a MAGA twist.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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“éclat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9clat. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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