exhibition

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No, I can't go in person, but the web site for the exhibition is a treat, like a grand picture-book.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of exhibiting.
  2. noun Something exhibited; an exhibit.
  3. noun A large-scale public showing, as of art objects or industrial or agricultural products.

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  • Stating that the exhibition is an excellent platform to engage with universities, she said:
  • "This exhibition is a good opportunity to be acquainted with recent developments of the educational systems in the international universities and compare them to our educational institutions so that we can improve the internal operations in our educational institutions accordingly," said Dr Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Sarmi, undersecretary at the Ministry of Higher Education in a statement.
  • No, I can't go in person, but the web site for the exhibition is a treat, like a grand picture-book. —  Word Wenches
  • The tefillin cases in this exhibition are the earliest known examples in the world. —  Art Knowledge News
  • Roy Finch, head of year seven and curriculum leader for art, said: "The work chosen for the exhibition was the work which best displayed the skills taught and the opportunities the pupils had been given so far this year."
 

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  1. = French exhibition = Spanish exhibicion = Portuguese exhibição = Italian esibizione, from Late Latin exhibitio(n-), a handing out, giving up, sustenance (modern senses from the modern verb), from exhibere, present, exhibit: see exhibit.
 

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