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formidability

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as in magnificence

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Yedikule Fortress, a former prison and imperial treasury whose origins go back to the fourth-century Walls of Constantinople, is returning to its former magnificence as the result of a multi-stage restoration project.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
The magnificence of the AI renaissance has blinded our society to its pernicious creep into the arts.

— David Barber, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of magnificence

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There is certainly no shortage of grandeur, but underneath it is a hotel that feels warm, remarkably unstuffy and, perhaps most surprisingly, enormous fun.

— Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
When any nondescript suburb opens a Cheesecake Factory, there’s no restaurant around that can compare to its palatial grandeur.

— Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of grandeur

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All the core pillars of its awesomeness were well intact—the blue paint, the nice wheels.

— Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 9 Sep. 2026
Kucherov’s 51 points in 42 career regular-season games and agitating awesomeness against Florida have him at the top of the list.

— Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2026

Definition of awesomeness

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This is a deeply flawed team that is capable of flashes of brilliance against some opponents.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
The fact that this ‘00s nostalgia piece was made via a very 2020s model of filmmaking is just further evidence of Udea’s casual formal brilliance.

— Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of brilliance

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Landon argued that public officials should be held to standards of conduct that include treating others with dignity, particularly when disagreements arise.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
The dignity of such aspirational, agentic citizenship and its contrast with the legalistic, subject citizenship of colonies and empires left its mark on our own state.

— Trygve Throntveit, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of dignity

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Yet Lee shows that the iron sense of control with which Brookner approached her own legacy runs through her fiction, too, creating the austere elegance that characterizes her prose.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Certainly not Polo Ralph Lauren, whose new Polo Blaze collection brings the elegance of the stables to city streets.

— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of elegance

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The mild-mannered DiLiegro has firm opinions about everything from meat-cutting to the resplendence of the Boston Red Sox.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.

— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021

Definition of resplendence

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Legal recognition of the country’s nobility stopped in 1946 and for aristocrats such as Princess Giacinta Ruspoli, upkeep of the family’s ancestral homes doesn’t come cheap.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Thomas Jefferson is believed to have loved these wines and today they are enjoyed by Italian nobility and discerning wine lovers the world over.

— Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026

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