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spotlight

noun as in attention; bright beam of light

verb as in focus attention on

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Tiffanie Barrière, award-winning bartender and educator known as “The Drinking Coach,” says these drinks never disappeared — they were just out of the spotlight.

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Cinema has a long love affair with the office but occasionally spotlights blue-collar workplaces.

On Friday night, however, Doncic shared the spotlight with Austin Reaves, who continues to be a shining star for the Lakers.

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Ms. Rinehart, whose podcast, “The Female Body Politic,” spotlights women’s history, canters through Rankin’s career with the same drive that Rankin exhibited, batting away critics and rarely acknowledging the complexity of federal politics.

Amid rising attention around prediction markets and online gambling, the stock trading app Robinhood Markets jumped back into the spotlight by unveiling a futures and derivatives exchange joint venture with Susquehanna International Group.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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