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Trump often soured on appointees who seemed drawn to the limelight during his first term, and even the warmest of relationships could go bad.

From BBC

“Precise and circumspect, with an avuncular demeanor and an authoritative voice .... Summerall indulged his partner’s many appetites and asides, even when that meant being elbowed aside at the mike and in the limelight.”

Though Biden stayed largely out of the limelight during the fall campaign, his occasional forays were sometimes marked with gaffes that provided unwanted headlines for the Harris campaign — evidence, some Democrats say, that Biden is wrong in his theory.

From Salon

“What better way to capture the limelight than to be the hero in another ‘attempted assassination’?” she said.

Amy Lee, the lead singer of the American rock band Evanescence, gets some limelight from Halsey too.

From Salon

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

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