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prominence
noun as in something that sticks out
noun as in distinction, outstandingness
Example Sentences
The civil rights leader was born in 1941 in segregated Greenville, S.C., and rose to prominence alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.
That voter rebuke rankled Mr. Erdoğan, who rose to political prominence in that same Istanbul office.
As such, she entered office bearing great — and vastly unrealistic — expectations about her prominence and the public role she would play in the Biden administration.
The issue gained prominence in June when a band called The Velvet Sundown suddenly went viral on Spotify, and only confirmed the following month that it was in fact AI-generated content.
The documentary aired last year but came to prominence this month when a leaked internal BBC memo which raised concerns about the edit was published by the Telegraph newspaper.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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