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as in highlighted
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine
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2
as in saw
to form a mental picture of
I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt
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Recent Examples of featured
A good number of dishes featured caviar, an ingredient that can sometimes overpower others.
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The Week Uk, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
Clairo kicked off the week with an Instagram photo dump that featured pictures from what looks to be like studio sessions, indicating that the singer may be getting ready to drop her fourth album.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2026
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2026
All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.
—Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
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The Week Uk, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
Clairo kicked off the week with an Instagram photo dump that featured pictures from what looks to be like studio sessions, indicating that the singer may be getting ready to drop her fourth album.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2026
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2026
All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.
—Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featured
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Earlier in the school year, BPS officials highlighted gains in chronic absenteeism — defined as students missing 10% or more of school days a year — across nearly all grade levels and student groups in the 2024-25 year from the previous year.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2026
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When Biden dropped out and Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, pundits highlighted that influencers were now molding the cultural conversation across the country.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Ruggeri says that, in comparison to saw palmetto, which gets far more attention.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
19 Feb. 2026
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During the trial, jurors learned about grim Google searches Brian had made after his wife died, including how to saw a body and how to clean blood off of wood floors.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
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Wasserman Schultz emphasized that her biggest concern is the dark web, where networks of predators buy and sell child pornography while evading detection.—
Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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Lilienthal emphasized that robots require physical, real-world data to understand movement and interaction with objects.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Mar. 2026
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The part puts Wahlberg opposite his old rival, Matt Damon, and the press revels in the opportunity for on-set gossip, real (the two actors genuinely hate each other) or imagined.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
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Epic has been busy but perhaps not as slammed as imagined due to its own daily capacity restrictions.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
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Atom Power isn’t pivoting to data centers so much as expanding in the industry, Atom Power leaders stressed.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Mar. 2026
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The Denver event, like so much art of the early 2020s, was born of postponements, fits and starts, tests, masks, stressed performers and all the other COVID restrictions and scrambled audience perceptions.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Commercial vessels are pictured offshore in Dubai on March 11, 2026.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2026
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Instead, Orion and its service module were pictured burning under the power of what appears to be a Centaur V — the upper stage for United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new Vulcan rocket.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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One Cold War era proposal known as Project Honey Badger envisioned inserting about 2,400 special operations troops into Iran using more than 100 aircraft.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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The City Council initially envisioned a 31-acre development project on public land.—
Andrea Levine O’Rourke,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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This is the soup my (not handy in the kitchen) grandmother dreamed of from her childhood but never could recreate.—
Molly Baz,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
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Natives, immigrants, and people freed from slavery forged this country out of ideals women and men had only previously dreamt of.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Featured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featured. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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