showy
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This litany of defeat includes showy federal efforts to scuttle mergers and acquisitions involving Whole Foods and Wild Oats, AT&T and Time Warner, and Microsoft and Activision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This year the clamor is louder, more aggressive, and tinged with showy economic threats.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
But that ego-removing message never quite reached the Met’s showy music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
While much of today’s advances are less showy, focused on things like energy efficiency and reducing elevator wait-times, some of what the industry is working on may yet produce a few gasps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Why had he given the showy song to Betty Jean and a strange thin melody to Caroline?
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Brecken Branstrator, the editor-in-chief of GemGuide, a gem-price data platform, said the “quiet luxury” trend may be giving way to showier offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yes: Alcaraz is the faster, showier player, capable of mad sprints to pull out improbable winners, but Sinner’s developed real range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2025
Maybe it’s happiest tucked into a cast-iron skillet, going golden and jammy while the showier types preen in their baskets.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
I first tuned into “Vanderpump Rules” for its addictive schadenfreude: you delighted in seeing the mistakes of your youth play out among a new generation, except in showier locales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
People are discontented, it would seem, with the White House, and talk of replacing it with a larger and showier edifice.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
The biggest music stars and the showiest productions are enjoying broad popularity right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The segment is easily the film’s showiest, Bi’s camera snaking through streets and darting into different buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
Smart merchandising means the nursery staff will have stocked up heavily on spring plants and staged the showiest stuff up front, where its powers of seduction will be strongest.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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