as in exhibit
an elaborate, visually exciting show or event
the over-the-top extravaganzas that are usually staged at halftime during the Super Bowl
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Its story of Chicago gangsters, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan), who return to their Mississippi hometown in 1932, closely follows the plot of the Nineties vampire extravaganza From Dusk till Dawn, which was directed by Robert Rodriquez in QT fanboy mode.
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Armond White, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
Helsinki, Finland June is great for: an alfresco, all-free art extravaganza.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
She, her husband and four children stage extravaganzas, with a sort of Passover funhouse experience in the basement, laser lights and fog machines to simulate the parting of the Red Sea, and homemade movie and television parodies.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
McKinley commented on Porsha’s post, praising her for putting the extravaganza together for their little one.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 Mar. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
Helsinki, Finland June is great for: an alfresco, all-free art extravaganza.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
She, her husband and four children stage extravaganzas, with a sort of Passover funhouse experience in the basement, laser lights and fog machines to simulate the parting of the Red Sea, and homemade movie and television parodies.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
McKinley commented on Porsha’s post, praising her for putting the extravaganza together for their little one.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extravaganza
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The addition to the west will not only include exhibit space, but a new restaurant and theater space whose views open to the south lawn.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2025
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Asawa’s own words posted throughout the exhibit reflect the simplicity of her genius.—
Robert Taylor,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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One of Hudson's competitors will be trans model Isabelle St. Cyr. St. Cyr will be the first openly trans contestant in the pageant's history after previously winning the local Miss Monson USA pageant in the Maine town of Monson.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The film will delve into the human side of incarceration, following women with complex pasts who discover resilience, hope and camaraderie through an unlikely source, a prison beauty pageant.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
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The exhibitions for Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary sales open May 2 and run through May 15 at the house’s York Avenue galleries.—
Daniel Cassady for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
26 Apr. 2025
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The exhibition, which opens tonight, is on view through June 21.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Most designers would find such a project daunting: To create 500 costumes for a theatrical spectacular that is part-cabaret, part-circus, with a budget of $14 million, more than 100 performers and lashings of Swarovski crystals.—
Cathrin Schaer,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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Review: Joyful 'Coco' breaks from the Pixar pack as a Mexican musical spectacular Who's making 'Coco 2'?—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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Authoritarian power will not be satisfied with one sacrifice or one enemy or one other but will require more, since that power thrives on the spectacle of punishment—the rendition.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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Sometimes death is itself the spectacle, the thing that people are really here to see, as in the double-suicide of Romeo + Juliet.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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This follows years where the display wasn’t allowed by the National Park Service under then-President Joe Biden.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Apr. 2025
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Six are recent donations or loans to the museum from descendants of the Austen family that are going on public display for the first time.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Extravaganza.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extravaganza. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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