lavish
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Such lavish funding isn’t available for probing the mysteries of space waste.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
There should be no single, all-powerful character around which a democracy revolves, so it is considered unseemly to lavish excessive finery on the head of state.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Xi was afforded a lavish welcome on the trip, which he took with his wife and other senior officials.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The lavish public displays however, have not managed to conceal all the differences between China and North Korea.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Dressed in shabby pants, with sweat already leaching through the armpits of my white cotton shirt, I felt out of place amid the neighborhood’s neatly manicured lawns and lavish estates.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing lavish
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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Grade 9, List 6
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