Sometimes we recognize that something spectacular just happened, something we sense may not happen again in our lifetime.

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Steve Pitt, chair of Portsmouth Cultural Partnership, described the prospect of being City of Culture as "an opportunity to do something spectacular".

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Stephen Jones reduced the deficit with a long-range penalty, but Wales still needed something spectacular if they were to threaten a win.

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"We knew this would have to be something spectacular, " says Ms. Broackes.

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At least it ends with something spectacular.

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It's interesting to note that Palm's Jon Rubenstein will be speaking at All Things D the week before this -- which we'll be at live, coincidentally -- so that'd certainly make an apropos place to announce something spectacular like this, wouldn't it?

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But then something spectacular happened.

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It is possible that with our best, most focused efforts, we might end up collaboratively creating something even more spectacular than what we can envision.

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In what has proved a series of spectacular blunders, Jay Leno is getting something of a do-over.

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But while there has to be something "epic" about the scene, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be visually spectacular.

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