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showboating

verb

present participle of showboat

as in hotdogging

to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior the gymnast was showboating for the cameras when she lost her balance and fell

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Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Mary Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, reveling with her sisters in the upper loge section along the first-base line.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 31 July 2026

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Cut the half into thin wedges by making ½-inch slices lengthwise through the onion, cutting up to, but not through, the root end.

— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2026
What parents can do on hectic mornings Nemours recommends doing as much as possible the night before, from setting out dishes to cutting up fruit.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026

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In another photo, Nader posed outside the event, showing off the dress from the front before joining the New York Fashion Week festivities.

— Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
The ceremony will also include showing off a new mobile food pantry unit created by veterans in the community.

— Todd Feurer, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026

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Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.

— Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026

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Now he is stood plaintively at the window, looking in at the roaring hearth and the feast, starting Carabao Cup games but getting hooked at half-time with Jamie Gittens and 16-year-old academy kids.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Greengrass knows how to stage action, how to keep this pace roaring, and that makes this film a blast to watch, but also one that feels not just of its time, but of our times.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

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