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The glasses—made in partnership with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica—are part of Meta’s grand plan to control the next phase of the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
What SpaceX’s stock has traded on, experts say, are the grand plans outlined by the company and CEO Elon Musk.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Watching them taught me that democracy depends less on grand speeches than on ordinary people showing up for their neighbors.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Kail, the Tony award-winning theater director of “Hamilton” making his narrative feature debut, doesn’t yet have the assurance to insist on his own grand visuals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Clearly he did not need it for walking, but it proved useful for making grand gestures.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
It’s not to be confused with Apple TV’s sports offerings, such as MLS matches, Formula One grands prix, or Friday baseball.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
Meadows calls the domaine’s namesake wine an aggregator of the top qualities of all the grands crus, Burgundy’s top-tier vineyards, forming a mystical combination of aromatics and liquid silk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
It was the Italian's third pole in four grands prix this season and his team-mate and title rival George Russell was down in fifth place, 0.399 seconds adrift.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Russell was fourth at Suzuka, as McLaren's Oscar Piastri, who had failed to start the opening two grands prix, finished second and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc claimed the final podium place in third.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Big Ma wouldn’t have stood for any screaming coming from her grands, but what Big Ma didn’t know wouldn’t earn us her shame.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
What stood out most was and is their profound appreciation for a grander inspirational source: the world of Studio Ghibli, brought to life by Hayao Miyazaki.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
He "made my world so much brighter, grander and more delightful than I could have ever understood it to be", she wrote on Instagram.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
In this triptych, Marat’s martyrdom is a muted centerpiece between grand hope and grander disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Dhurandhar, arriving months after the worst India-Pakistan military clash in two decades, sees Dhar return to the political-thriller genre on a grander scale.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Goebbels had promptly remodeled and expanded the house—the hundred-year-old former palace of the marshals of the Prussian court—to make it even grander than it had been.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
“It’s clear the president wanted the grandest flyover ever,” Isaacman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
A contemporary newspaper called it “the grandest, most majestic, and most effective painting ever exhibited in America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Spielberg turned one of science fiction’s grandest ideas — first contact with alien life — into the story of a boy and his weird little space-faring goblin best friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
BBC Scotland charts the rise of a modern-day Scotland great, from Clydebank council pitches to football's grandest stage.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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