prominence
Example Sentences
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These range from major businesses, represented here with the largest dots, to more modest ventures and holding companies with less strategic value or prominence, shown with smaller dots.
Fraud prevention has risen in prominence following the recent bankruptcy of subprime auto lender Tricolor.
“I think the jazz drumming thing is new to the game,” Lievsay says of the percussive element that grows in prominence as the fights’ stakes increase.
From Los Angeles Times
Rising to prominence with the aristocratic Hesketh Racing, Hunt's ability behind the wheel shone through his personal indulgences just enough for him to win his first and only title with McLaren.
From BBC
The documentary photographer rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, with The Last Resort: his study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
