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- noun Plural form of
exposition .
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Examples
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Her Majesty the Queen of England has kindly sent an exhibit of the work of her own hands, with the message that while she usually feels no interest in expositions, she gives this special token of sympathy with the work of the Board of Lady Managers because of its efforts for women.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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Yes, there are plenty of people out there who want to read 2,000-word expositions on the state of the U.S. auto industry or the latest advances in the fight against heart disease.
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I think Mr. Michael is right about popular expositions, which is why his pamphlet on Cybernation has always been so inadequate a ground for argument.
Automation Keyserling, Leon H. 1965
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These pictures might also be called expositions of psychism in color and movement.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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Stereo card photographs, featuring sites around the world and popular topics such as expositions, industry, disasters, and portraits of presidents.
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Like all "expositions," it seemed to me to be full of ugly things, and gave one a portentous idea of the quantity of rubbish that man carries with him on his course through the ages.
A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879
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Stereo card photographs, featuring sites around the world and popular topics such as expositions, industry, disasters, and portraits of presidents.
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The visitor arrives on the ground level through three suspended bridges launched on a large excavation which lights the vault designed to house expositions and art installations.
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We have always enjoyed the expositions at the Petit Palais, Rodin Musee, and Musee D'Orsay.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day 2009
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And Dyer also provides longer expositions, such as this passage describing Pepper playing his alto sax while sitting in a prison cell:
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer » Print 2009
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