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spotlight

[spot-lahyt] / ˈspɒtˌlaɪt /




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Anthropic was thrust into the spotlight recently after it released its most powerful model yet, called Mythos.

From Barron's • Jul. 7, 2026

She’s not a diva belting out choruses and taking up space—instead, she sometimes seems like a master of ceremonies, someone hosting the party rather than hogging the spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

As your friendly neighborhood Italian American, I’m thrilled to see olives getting their time in the spotlight.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2026

But Glenn and other devotees of factory-built housing hope to use the spotlight on recovery to show a still-skeptical public that prefab doesn’t mean second-class.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

The clouds in the evening sky must have parted because I see a column of moonlight shine down on her like her own personal spotlight.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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