tableaux

variants also tableaus
plural of tableau

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Noun
  • Meanwhile, Oregon and Washington state shared an empty pavilion, with nothing but backdrops that showed beavers and the ocean or Amazon packages and the ocean, respectively.
    Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
  • For those of us who live in Australia, there was a surreal quality to witnessing the frenzied panic of a mass shooting unfold against one of the country’s most iconic backdrops.
    Oscar Schwartz, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • McGregor has floated big-money boxing and bareknuckle spectacles, and recently claimed Terence Crawford turned down a nine-figure two-fight deal to face him.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Celebrity weddings are often grand spectacles, and Swift is a billionaire.
    Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Pélisson previously told Variety that animation and co-productions have become key drivers of French content’s appeal abroad, reflecting the sector’s ability to travel across borders and reach a wide range of audiences.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 July 2026
  • On average, each crew member working in the last eight years have worked on 22 productions.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Andrew Raftery Two forceful exhibitions have shown how Indian artists and presses met the cultural upheaval of the nineteenth century with lithographic prints that rendered Hindu gods more approachable and helped to galvanize national identity.
    The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • Alongside his acting career, Baker had, by the 1970s, established himself as a painter and sculpture with exhibitions in prominent galleries in Los Angeles, New York, and New England.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Despite the hourslong delay due to approaching severe storms, audience members who returned to the venue do not appear to be deterred and are signing and dancing along to musical performances ahead of the president's address.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Every twenty minutes cliff divers, costumed characters, and magicians put on performances and interact with diners.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • Vogue Business assessed the 64 shows and presentations published on Vogue Runway and contacted each brand to verify the findings (brands were given 48 hours to respond).
    Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 July 2026
  • Supported by a potent Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, ample RAM, and a generous 1TB SSD, the OmniBook 7 can handle any massive data sets, lengthy presentations, and more while running several programs at once.
    Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Then-Mayor John Lindsay had cut down on ticker-tape extravaganzas for financial and other reasons.
    Anthony Izaguirre, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Production’s involvement in paying for cast extravaganzas is something Monique brought up in a confessional interview during season 10.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The agency also plans to seek proposals for additional commercial landers, technology demonstrations, a south polar imaging mission, and a communications relay network linking lunar assets with Earth.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa met Monday night with leaders of some of the groups and asked them to conduct peaceful demonstrations.
    Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
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“Tableaux.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tableaux. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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