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an elaborate, visually exciting show or event
the over-the-top extravaganzas that are usually staged at halftime during the Super Bowl
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Other ideas for your holiday weekend: 🍷 Walk among twinkle lights, buy crafts and gifts, take home Christmas trees, and sip cider at Blake's Orchard's holiday extravaganza.
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Annalise Frank, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is set to go ahead in Basel, Switzerland after the city’s residents voted to use $40 million of taxpayer money for producing the all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
In that show, the stars and chorus girls of past extravaganzas gather one last time to gaze back before a wrecking ball demolishes the old theater that is being turned into a parking lot.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
As Glinda the good witch, Grande slides across the floor, dances on a banister and swings from a chandelier — all while singing live in a seven-minute theatrical extravaganza.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
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Annalise Frank, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is set to go ahead in Basel, Switzerland after the city’s residents voted to use $40 million of taxpayer money for producing the all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
In that show, the stars and chorus girls of past extravaganzas gather one last time to gaze back before a wrecking ball demolishes the old theater that is being turned into a parking lot.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
As Glinda the good witch, Grande slides across the floor, dances on a banister and swings from a chandelier — all while singing live in a seven-minute theatrical extravaganza.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extravaganza
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Design Recalls Traditional Japanese Woodworking Techniques Two notable Italian designers are featured in the Milan exhibit: Giulio Iacchetti and Piero Lissoni.R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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McClain attorney Patrick Cotter said the exhibit was cumulative in addition to being hearsay.Jim Talamonti | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
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The former beauty pageant winner confirmed her relationship with Keith in September 2024.McKinley Franklin, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Related article Meet the 80-year-old Miss Universe Korea contestant proving age is just a number The beauty pageant world has been forced to modernize in recent years, as the values the shows traditionally embraced do not chime with younger generations.Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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An exhibition at the Red Eight Gallery in London is immortalizing the greatest Shakespearean actors of our time through portraits that can blink, breathe and rattle off soliloquies.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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To honor that marker, there will be special issues, two new anthologies, a film festival, an exhibition of New Yorker art and archive materials.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
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The event itself has evolved from its humble beginnings as a motorcycle endurance run into a multi-class spectacular that draws competitors and spectators from across the globe.Shelby Knick, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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There are several different media types under the OOH umbrella, but the most popular include billboards, Times Square digital spectaculars and ads affixed to large scale walls, and then on the transit side, advertisements affixed to subway stations/trains, buses, bike shares and bus shelters.Fairchild Studio, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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The 12-minute spectacle radiated an unmistakable swagger, serving as a heartfelt love letter to her hometown.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 26 Dec. 2024
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The spectacle draws 100,000 visitors to experience 16,000 dancers, music, and a Gastronomic Fair featuring the cultures and flavors of Chilean, Peruvian, Bolivian, and Afro-descendant communities.AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
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The over-the-top neighborhood display inspired the 2023 Amazon Prime Video filmCandy Cane Lane, starring Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross as Chris and Carol Carver.Megan Stein, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Hundreds of workers also went on strike in June 2023 to protest after the union said Starbucks banned Pride displays at some stores.CBS News, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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