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limelight
noun as in public attention
Example Sentences
Trump often soured on appointees who seemed drawn to the limelight during his first term, and even the warmest of relationships could go bad.
“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.”
“What better way to capture the limelight than to be the hero in another ‘attempted assassination’?” she said.
Raducanu, 21, is already a Grand Slam champion after bursting into the limelight with a meteoric win at the 2021 US Open.
But his break from the limelight is unlikely to have dented his popularity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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