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spotlight

noun as in attention; bright beam of light

verb as in focus attention on

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The government shutdown put the spotlight on Democratic demands to continue Covid-era Affordable Care Act subsidies.

It also puts a spotlight on the clubby insurance industry, dominated by a small circle of mostly male executives who vie for the top positions.

Mehdi Kessaci's murder has brought the national spotlight back on a drugs trafficking problem that French experts and ministers agree is reaching almost unmanageable proportions.

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Matsuzawa isn’t quite as famous as his countryman, but landing in the NFL would put him in an even bigger spotlight.

Waltz thanked the rapper for "leveraging her massive platform to spotlight the atrocities against Christians in Nigeria".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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