expo
Americannoun
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a world's fair or international exposition.
Expo '67 in Montreal.
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any exhibition or show.
an annual computer expo.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of expo
First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening
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“Future combat will be largely robotic. It will be automated,” former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who now invests in military-drone companies, said recently on stage at an expo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Bezos also used his appearance at Europe's largest tech expo VivaTech Paris to outline his long-term vision for space exploration.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
One participant from Russia, who declined to provide his name or affiliation, told AFP he was at the Shenzhen expo to look for drone "interceptors", without giving more details.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Things got clearer after she took him and a handful of students to a union expo, where he learned about pipe fitting and other skilled trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
The city memo noted that, in 2023, the operators moved the prerace expo from the city-owned Los Angeles Convention Center to Dodger Stadium, where McCourt holds 50% ownership of the stadium parking lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The 63-year-old leader talks almost daily on television, visiting trade expos promoting tourism and highlighting his government’s efforts to stimulate new industries to compensate for the collapse of the lifeblood oil sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
In the future, he also hopes to sell the product at pet expos and possibly at wine conferences.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Past expositions expos have been credited with inspiring or popularizing such groundbreaking inventions as the light bulb, the Ferris wheel and the Eiffel Tower, which was built for the 1889 exposition in Paris.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Kyle Marsden-Kish, ReedPop’s global VP of gaming, added that E3’s Los Angeles return will be “recognizably epic” and set “a new benchmark for video game expos in 2023 and beyond.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
There was the incessant contrast of civilization with barbarism, of the East with the West; and there was infinite play for the comic expos of the credulous "tenderfoot" at the hands of the pitiless cowboy.
From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald
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