grandstand
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"For us Formula 1 fans, it's really great to have a race at home!" says Rodrigo Gil, a 30-year-old engineer from Madrid, as he watches free practice from a grandstand at Turn 8.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Not prepared to give up their quest for just a fifth win on New Zealand soil, France hit back when Jalibert's 78th-minute try set up a grandstand finish.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
The Tournament of Roses is providing more than 1,000 free grandstand tickets for fire victims to view the parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
A grandstand had been erected in the central square and Oliver and I sat off to the side, away from the main podium.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
She and two friends were watching for the first time from packed grandstands, having stumbled onto the competition during a weekend reunion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
There are two spectator grandstands at Piccadilly and on Cockspur Street, close to Trafalgar Square.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Anyone who has never attended the race may be left to wonder: With all the pomp in the grandstands, how does anyone get a clear glimpse of the finish line?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The cheapest tickets in the grandstands are around $35.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
The wooden grandstands were painted in scarlet and white.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
And he has grandstanded constantly about Santos’ turpitude on TV.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
“Van Damme certainly grandstanded around the set – he let everyone know who the star was,” he recalls.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2018
"Performing for you is my life," Rivers grandstanded at the end, "and no one has the right to take it away from me."
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014
Worse, members of the committee grandstanded about the testimony, about Hill’s motives.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2014
You have grandstanded and posed as the debonair adventurer, until it’s come to be second nature.
From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck
Others see his comments as grandstanding meant to stoke investor excitement for what’s being sold as a godlike technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
But it is so firmly grounded in truthful and complicated detail drawn from Mr. Dunne’s actual experience that it makes its powerful moral argument without any need for grandstanding or preaching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
But grandstanding for the committee isn't Davie or Shah's style either.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Hitler discovered that courtrooms were the perfect platform for his political grandstanding.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
He was grandstanding, Inej saw that, buying her time as she leapt over the slate shingles.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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