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grandeur

[gran-jer, -joor] / ˈgræn dʒər, -dʒʊər /


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But here Dudamel became more simply an architect of awe, unfazed by Mahlerian uncertainty as he worked his way to an inevitable cosmic grandeur unfazed by uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

“Game of Thrones” spinoff “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” doesn’t have the grandeur of its predecessor, but is just as brutal while also telling a smaller, sometimes even sweeter story.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Word of the country’s natural grandeur and abundant resources seeped back east, and by the mid-1800s Manifest Destiny—the supposedly divinely ordained quest to expand across the whole continent—became a rallying cry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

The cover of “Communion” eschews the grandeur of a Catholic cathedral, in favor of a photograph of a humble Methodist chapel in a rural part of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

The writer L. Frank Baum and his artist-partner William Wallace Denslow visited the fair; its grandeur informed their creation of Oz.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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