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as in extravagant
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as in incredible
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as in exhibit
an elaborate, visually exciting show or event
the larger-than-life spectaculars that make Las Vegas attractive to people with little interest in gambling
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Recent Examples of spectacular
News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
The award ceremony will air live on CBS and Paramount+.
10 best songs of 2024:Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Beyonce deliver a spectacular year
Who is hosting the Grammys?
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2024
The nighttime spectacular, Disney Starlight, will fill Main Street, U.S.A. and carry on the legacy of the former Main Street Electrical Parade.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
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The auditorium was transformed with spectacular holiday decorations, including a beautiful Christmas tree, full of ornaments and lights, and unique holiday table decorations filled the room.
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What will a partial lunar eclipse of the Harvest Supermoon look like?
Unlike April’s total solar spectacular, this month’s lunar spectacle is only a partial eclipse.
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In December 2019, the Angolan Embassy hosted an extravagant event at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art to commemorate the 1619 anniversary.Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Families who had given their sons and their future to the regime survived on bread and tea while Assad’s inner circle and other high officials flaunted their wealth on Instagram—luxury cars, seaside mansions, extravagant weddings.Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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Experts, including Mike Fried, CEO of The Diamond Pro, previously noted to the outlet that the ring has incredible value.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Nuclear arms control activists have long warned that a war between the U.S. and China poses an incredible risk of a nuclear escalation.Brad Dress, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2025
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The temporary home of South Korea’s first president has been preserved along with exhibits of historical photos of wartime life, a recreation of a refugee’s shanty, and an outdoor school.Peggy Orenstein, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 2025
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National Zoo members can get a sneak peak from January 10–19, 2025, while the Asia Trail exhibit will open to the public on January 24, 2025.Kaeli Conforti, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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The Baker Street attraction is styled from Elton’s legendary 1975 Midsummer Music one-day festival at Wembley Stadium — hands on the key, bejewelled jumpsuit, flamboyant glasses, and platform-shoed feet in the air.Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2024
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Letting all his flamboyant acting chops loose without ever tipping into hamminess, Hwang is dynamite as a monstrous character whose combination of charisma, swaggering arrogance and sewer rat cunning inspires equal measures of fear and fealty among co-conspirators.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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From a temple in Datong, China, that appears to defy gravity to a hand-hewn stone church in Ethiopia, AD has scoured the globe for the 24 most inspiring, extraordinary houses of worship built into the natural world.Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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Purple: Prefix for greatness or extraordinary power.Flynn Nicholls, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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In 1974, Wayne married Kathlyn White, a former pageant queen.Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
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On a Sunday night in 1945, Jimmy Carter, on a break from the U.S. Naval Academy in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, was supposed to go out on a date with a pageant queen.Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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In May of that year Musk revealed his Crew Dragon spacecraft to the world with a characteristically showy event at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
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The movie is not visually showy, but that’s part of its appeal.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
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Meanwhile, speaking of Cannes, Tom Cruise took Top Gun: Maverick to the Riviera to kickstart the movie’s phenomenal box office run.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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Graphene has a phenomenal capacity, up to 1,000 watt-hours of energy per kilogram.Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Spectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectacular. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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