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prominent

[prom-uh-nuhnt] / ˈprɒm ə nənt /




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Saronic is currently valued at $9.25 billion, with prominent investors including Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Caffeinated Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

But along the coast in Arbroath it is a different story, with many retail units in the heart of the Angus town lying empty, and numerous prominent "to let" and "for sale" signs.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Her husband, Vali Chandrasekaran, is a prominent television writer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Pulte the grandson hasn’t donated to any prominent Fellowship candidates.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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