in the shadow of
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1
: very close to
a town located in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains
2
: in a position of being unnoticed because all the attention is given to someone else
She grew up in the shadow of her very popular sister.
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Mike Defabo, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Iger, a longtime ABC executive, had toiled years in the shadow of former Chief Executive Michael Eisner and Disney’s board wanted to give him a shot.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
The past two seasons, Meeks played in the shadow of backcourt standout Kendra Brown, one of the program’s all-time greats.
—Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Then, amid the pandemic, my research on cultural destruction was suddenly everywhere as Azerbaijan launched a war in our ancestral homeland—fought in the shadow of erasures like Djulfa.
—Simon Maghakyan, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
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