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- adverb showing
grandiloquence
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- adverb in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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When a number of the key plotters based in Hamburg, Germany, moved into a dingy, modern apartment block on Marienstrasse, they grandiloquently referred to it as Dar al-Ansar, or the Abode of the Supporters.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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When a number of the key plotters based in Hamburg, Germany, moved into a dingy, modern apartment block on Marienstrasse, they grandiloquently referred to it as Dar al-Ansar, or the Abode of the Supporters.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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When a number of the key plotters based in Hamburg, Germany, moved into a dingy, modern apartment block on Marienstrasse, they grandiloquently referred to it as Dar al-Ansar, or the Abode of the Supporters.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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"The Daily Show's" take on D.C., grandiloquently subtitled "Indecision 2010: When Grizzlies Attack: The Daily Show Midterm Teapartyganza," have relied mainly on the growing contempt for "Washington" (an abstraction that those of us who live here learned to endure eons ago), no different than the virulent anti-government vibes in midterm campaign ads that Stewart so gleefully mocks.
Obama is a guest as Jon Stewart brings his 'Daily Show' gags to town Hank Stuever 2010
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our “creations,” are simply the notes of our observations.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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When a number of the key plotters based in Hamburg, Germany, moved into a dingy, modern apartment block on Marienstrasse, they grandiloquently referred to it as Dar al-Ansar, or the Abode of the Supporters.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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David says grandiloquently that AnonOps has the "capability to eliminate the infrastructure of any and all government sites on its watch list."
Anonymous Speaks Parmy Olson 2011
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"The Daily Show's" take on D.C., grandiloquently subtitled "Indecision 2010: When Grizzlies Attack: The Daily Show Midterm Teapartyganza," have relied mainly on the growing contempt for "Washington" (an abstraction that those of us who live here learned to endure eons ago), no different than the virulent anti-government vibes in midterm campaign ads that Stewart so gleefully mocks.
Obama is a guest as Jon Stewart brings his 'Daily Show' gags to town Hank Stuever 2010
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The world of the bullfight likes to refer to itself grandiloquently as the fiesta nacional – as though in a land of hundreds of thousands of fiestas, this is the one big celebration all Spaniards can share in.
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He remarried, had three more children to go with his four grown boys—the grandiloquently monikered Michelangelo, Dominic, Alessandro, and Antonio—left Clarksdale, and moved four hundred miles down Highway 61, to New Orleans.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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