splendid
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Despite his love for the flat and its "pretty splendid" grounds, he thinks the service charge could put off any future buyers.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The immediate answer is that several of next year’s Academy Award nominees are starting their long Oscar seasons at the splendid opening-night banquet where truffles adorned both the sea bass and the ice cream.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Americans hated the laws, all but one of which was repealed under Adams’s successor, Thomas Jefferson, and the whole episode mars the second president’s otherwise splendid reputation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The Spectre is also electric—in the case of the top-spec Black Badge version, extremely electric, with 650 hp to answer the most whispered summons with splendid excess.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
They drew rein in Sparta before the lordly dwelling, a house far more splendid than either young man had ever seen.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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