display
Usage
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Display applies to intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.Example Sentences
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Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Based on an original smaller piece created by Wood in a single afternoon, the work depicting a man and a horse has gone on display in the estate's Secret Garden.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Intersectionality is on display at the California African American Museum with “Free and Queer,” a show that puts Black LGBTQ+ Californians at the center of the civil rights movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Nearly everyone involved in this production has secrets to hide and pretensions to put on display.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Dr. Ramaswami reached into a display and pulled out a long piece of fabric.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
