prominent
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Examples of prominent in a Sentence
John Updike, The Afterlife, 1994
When the easy way out seemed to be for a number of prominent men to support a petition to get Davis a pardon, which, if granted, would get the President and others off the hook, Davis was determined to let them hang there.
—Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980
His eyes, which tended to bulge when he was exercised, were not quite prominent.
—E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1974
I don't mind his calling me raw. He is reckoned raw himself and at the same time perhaps the most prominent of the younger poets here.
—Robert Frost, letter, c. 16 June 1913
He quickly became prominent in the music industry.
He placed the award in a prominent position on his desk.
He has a prominent nose.
the most prominent peak in the mountain range
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Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
If Cooper had been inactive, Elijah Moore would’ve played a more prominent role, and Donovan Peoples-Jones and others would’ve picked up the slack.
—cleveland, 18 Sep. 2023
Propaganda plays heavily into how gifts from South Koreans are displayed, with the large-screen television set from former President Kim Dae Jung, who engaged Pyongyang with peace policies, receiving prominent showing.
—Reuters, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
He was survived by four children, five grandchildren and the fond memories of prominent members of the tennis community.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
After one term in the State Senate, Paxton was elected Texas’s top lawyer at a time when attorneys general were playing a newly prominent, and partisan, role in national politics.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
Wonder Land: As if Trump-Biden weren’t enough, two of the U.S.’s most prominent CEOs may actually duke it out.
—Dennis Kneale, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2023
In addition to regular therapy visits, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, antidepressants, and antianxiety meds play a huge role in keeping extreme mood swings—bipolar disorder’s most prominent symptom—from messing with your life too much.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 14 Sep. 2023
The latest Hot 100 also marks another milestone for country, in what has been an especially prominent year for the genre, as 20 country songs place in Hot 100’s top 40 for the first time.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Middle English promynent, borrowed from Latin prōminent-, prōminens "projecting, standing out," from present participle of prōminēre "to project beyond a surface, stick out, stick up," from prō- pro- entry 2 + -minēre, taken to mean "stand out, rise above" (unattested without a prefix) — more at minatory
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Prominent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent. Accessed 22 Sep. 2023.
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