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unveiling

[ uhn-vey-ling ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a ceremony in which a statue or monument is presented or displayed for the first time by removing its covering.
an act or instance of presenting, displaying, or revealing, especially for the first time:
the unveiling of a new play.

unveiling

/ ʌnˈveɪlɪŋ /

a ceremony involving the removal of a veil at the formal presentation of a statue, monument, etc, for the first time
the presentation of something, esp for the first time

First recorded in 1760–70; unveil + -ing ¹

Scheiber inferred that Jarrett “is the closest we have to a human decoder ring” capable of unveiling “the real Barack Obama.”

"I felt very moved and very happy, too," Paolucci said at the unveiling.

Even that day of the unveiling, Liberty remained elusive in practice in the United States.

Only one thing is for certain – Japan has become the epicenter of the still unveiling Bitcoin mystery.

It smacks of yet another instance of the administration unveiling policy with good spin and no spine.

I've asked them and their friends to come down here to headquarters for the unveiling of Black Hood, alias the Eye.

In other words, from whatever point we approach the witnesses of Lucifer, they are subjected to a rough unveiling.

Kalmim made no scruple of unveiling, to afford her companion the whole benefit of her charms.

A bronze tablet recording this fact had been installed, and this was to be the unveiling.

Near here in the year 1865, on the 5th day of May, a vast concourse of people assembled to see the unveiling of a statue of Dante.

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