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be conspicuous

verb as in figure in

verb as in show up

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Lépine’s theory was that detectives should be inconspicuous, and police officers who walked the street should be conspicuous.

While the Russian delegation will be conspicuous by its absence, organisers hailed a record turnout in terms of the number and diversity of participants, with expectations of a "high-level" Chinese presence.

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It makes sense that there wouldn’t be conspicuous Jedi hanging around, but I do love how the only people called upon to perform any sort of magic are crooked financiers.

In 1941 America, well-brought up boys were taught that they “must never be conspicuous from use of highly scented soap or toilet water.”

According to the activists, the danger is that those countries “most deeply affected by the climate crisis and those countries suffering from the lack of support by rich nations in providing vaccines will be left out of the talks and be conspicuous in their absence,” Tasneem Essop, executive director of the Climate Action Network, a collection of hundreds of nonprofit and nongovernmental advocacy groups across 130 countries, said in a statement.

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

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