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[gran-stand, grand-] / ˈgrænˌstænd, ˈgrænd- /


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And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

Team-mate Alex Coles' mind went back to 2017 - Jonathan Davies' shanked kick, Owen Farrell's long pass and Elliot Daly sliding in for another galloping, grandstand finale.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2026

Lawrence Shankland cut the arrears 15 minutes from time before Cammy Devlin set up a grandstand finish.

From Barron's Dec. 27, 2025

Slot would have been under even more pressure had Florian Wirtz's 81st-minute shot not deflected in off Nordi Mukiele to set up what Liverpool hoped would be a grandstand finish.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

By ten-thirty, the grandstand was filled to capacity.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

View-blocking umbrellas are prohibited in parade grandstands and along the route.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2026

On Saturday the pair powered through a sustained shower of razz from the grandstands at the Ryder Cup on New York’s Long Island.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

As the Hitler Youth faced the twin granite grandstands, they stood at parade rest, waiting for the Führer to address them.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

Previous versions have often been sleepy affairs with more backslapping and grandstanding than serious policy action.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Responding to Reform's claims that the needs of minority communities matter more, she said: "I don't think this is a moment to pit white Britons against non-white Britons", and any "political grandstanding" should be rejected.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

Instead, officials “chose grandstanding instead of the normal process” and arrested Williamson at home Wednesday, despite her being seriously ill and in need of a liver transplant, Scott said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

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

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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