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Recent Examples of conspicuously
History offers a third data point beyond 2008 that the industry letter conspicuously underweights.
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Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Most Americans have never encountered it — and after 20 years of expansion across more than 60 countries, North America remains conspicuously absent from HELL Energy’s footprint.
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Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Before their meeting, he was escorted into a hall where a guestbook lay open to a blank page, a portrait of Maduro wearing the Presidential sash hanging conspicuously above it.
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Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
Sirianni, 45, a hypercompetitive hothead who has conspicuously engaged with players (in Eagles and opposing jerseys), coaches (Eagles and opposing), fans (same) and officials, wants to be a mature person who can rein in his emotions, but not at the expense of surrendering his essence.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Also, his paint was burned off in just the same spots as the snowman that had, for years, served as a jolly sentry outside our neighbor’s front door—a position that was now vacant, while our own home was, in a first, conspicuously and festively guarded.
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Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Traffic rushes by on the surrounding streets, but within the 16-acre neighborhood of Culdesac, cars are conspicuously absent.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
12 June 2026
While Strong, Fishel, and Friedle went on to launch the popular rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World, in 2022, Savage has remained conspicuously absent from their lives.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 June 2026
Proposals range from purchasing tickets, only to leave seats conspicuously empty, to booing the national anthem and withholding any celebration of Iranian goals.
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Shirvin Zeinalzadeh,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Most Americans have never encountered it — and after 20 years of expansion across more than 60 countries, North America remains conspicuously absent from HELL Energy’s footprint.
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Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Before their meeting, he was escorted into a hall where a guestbook lay open to a blank page, a portrait of Maduro wearing the Presidential sash hanging conspicuously above it.
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Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
Sirianni, 45, a hypercompetitive hothead who has conspicuously engaged with players (in Eagles and opposing jerseys), coaches (Eagles and opposing), fans (same) and officials, wants to be a mature person who can rein in his emotions, but not at the expense of surrendering his essence.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Also, his paint was burned off in just the same spots as the snowman that had, for years, served as a jolly sentry outside our neighbor’s front door—a position that was now vacant, while our own home was, in a first, conspicuously and festively guarded.
—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Traffic rushes by on the surrounding streets, but within the 16-acre neighborhood of Culdesac, cars are conspicuously absent.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
12 June 2026
While Strong, Fishel, and Friedle went on to launch the popular rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World, in 2022, Savage has remained conspicuously absent from their lives.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 June 2026
Proposals range from purchasing tickets, only to leave seats conspicuously empty, to booing the national anthem and withholding any celebration of Iranian goals.
—
Shirvin Zeinalzadeh,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspicuously
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Seated near the senators, a woman in a crisp white uniform appears to listen in, her hands folded neatly in her lap.
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Legacy is what keeps many founders going when the numbers no longer add up neatly.
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These particles reflect the water’s color back to the surface—hence the strikingly intense turquoise hues.
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Then, aged rye from a distillery in Indiana was put into those casks for two weeks, creating a strikingly spicy and altogether delicious—not to mention unique—whiskey that really stood out.
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This involved hanging and displaying the body in a luridly public cage.
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The story was subbed, luridly headlined, set in type, and fitted lovingly into the front page.
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Jessie takes the reins in the newest installment, which smartly takes the franchise into the Internet era.
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While most of these hover around half an hour, the show is so smartly written and cleverly crafted, more than enough story is packed into each short installment.
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The bathhouse was richly decorated.
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Then, each June, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, the town’s traditional dresses—richly decorated, pleated, and baroque in their ornamentation—are brought back into the light.
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Banks want credit for having moved beyond the Value at Risk models that failed so spectacularly in 2008, when trading-book losses at major institutions exceeded 99th-percentile VaR estimates by factors of three to ten, according to the Basel Committee's own post-crisis review.
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The line — delivered by Timothy Simons, who played the spectacularly insecure Jonah Ryan on Veep — earned one of the semester’s biggest laughs.
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The catastrophic part of the book is shockingly witty and beautiful, but the first part shook me even more.
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And while Paraguay deserve plenty of blame for what was a shockingly poor effort, Maucio Pochettino’s USMNT also deserves credit for instilling a killer instinct in his side that broke that Albirroja spirit.
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In one such cord-and-mirror series, he is nattily dressed in a plaid oxford shirt and a necktie.
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“Conspicuously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspicuously. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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