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spotlight

noun as in attention; bright beam of light

verb as in focus attention on

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It was a tragedy involving one head teacher that was a catalyst in bringing this system under the spotlight.

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“There was never a formal breakup,” Rossen says now, his voice jumping around with nervous energy, after years away from the spotlight.

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But its time in the spotlight may be here.

The struggle for dominance may be fiercest in generative artificial intelligence, spotlighting Tuesday's planned appearance by Cristiano Amon, boss of American chip developer Qualcomm.

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Investors already have gone two months in a row without nonfarm payroll reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, putting private sources of data in the spotlight instead.

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

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