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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

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

From Barron's Dec. 27, 2025

“Dead Man” takes aim at hypocritical strong men who grandstand on a pulpit.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

George Ford's conversion and penalty pushed England 11 points clear, only for Rodrigo Isgro's converted try in the final minute to set up a grandstand last play.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2025

In the Belmont grandstand, which, if stood on end, would nearly equal the height of the new Empire State Building, every seat was booked.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The cheapest tickets in the grandstands are around $35.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

Umbrellas are prohibited in the parade grandstands, and spectators are encouraged to leave them at home if they’re standing elsewhere along the route, said Candy Carlson, a spokesperson for the Tournament of Roses.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

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

Enter DJ Admin, real name Rick Jansen, who is the man tasked with keeping the fanatical orange-clad crowd in the dedicated grandstands entertained during a race weekend.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2025

When they were sure that they had won, the boys rowed slowly past the grandstands to polite applause.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

We’re going to have to get to a place where long-term deliberation is possible instead of short-term Instagram and TikTok, like little bits of information grandstanding as serious insight.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 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

There is more to Noah Lyles than just the showmanship, the grandstanding and the dyed orange hair.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2025

Hitler discovered that courtrooms were the perfect platform for his political grandstanding.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2024

Nevertheless, several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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