- present participle of grandstand.
grandstanding
Example Sentences
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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
Previous versions have often been sleepy affairs with more backslapping and grandstanding than serious policy action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
According to Kyslytsia, these dealings are business-like and generally free of the sort of political and historical grandstanding seen elsewhere by Moscow.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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
Nevertheless, several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
