front burner

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Recent Examples of front burner But the administration shows little sign of pushing foreign policy off the front burner. Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025 Those odds are now up to 46 percent, putting Ovechkin’s chase firmly back on the sport’s front burner. Sean Gentille, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025 February 2025 brought this to the front burner, as the SEC acknowledged the proposal by Grayscale in include staking activities in the Ethereum ETFs already offered by the firm, with a decision expected by May 2025. Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Reading and England was the front burner. Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for front burner
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Noun
  • That would change in a head-to-head-matchup when the issues where Hilton is closer to Trump’s position would move to center stage.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 30 May 2026
  • Men’s Casino Gauntlet Match AEW featured a Women’s Casino Gauntlet at All In 2025, so this year the men could take center stage in one of the company’s most innovative match concepts, with a future world title opportunity on the line.
    Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Charlotte Mather-Taylor, the director of the Area Agency on Aging of Broward County, echoed the sentiment on the importance of mental activity.
    Lauren Pastrana, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Finally, in the Oaxacan field test, the team showed that predatory wasps use the airborne distress signals to find their prey, but the relative importance of direct leaf defenses versus this indirect wasp recruitment isn’t clear.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • DeGette went on to narrowly earn her place on the ballot in late March at the 1st Congressional District party assembly, just clearing the eligibility threshold while Kiros, 29, won top billing.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • The move is shocking given Hardy's top billing on the series, which also stars Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
    Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Camilla and William are reportedly aligned in their desire for even more consequences for Andrew and potentially, the rest of his family.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 May 2026
  • In that sense, today’s audiences aren’t rejecting movie history so much as actively excavating it — but that feedback loop could have some unintended consequences for older creators.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The investigation places a national spotlight on a local controversy that has dominated public meetings in Cabarrus County this spring, drawing dozens of speakers to school board and county commission meetings and generating extensive discussion on social media.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
  • There have been several cases of high schools or colleges around the United States that ended up plastered across social media and in the national spotlight.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The strikes have also targeted regions with biblical significance, threatening historical and archaeological sites.
    Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • The president has pressured the Fed to cut rates, while Warsh has recently downplayed the significance and accuracy of the PCE gauge.
    D. Brian Blank, Fortune, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • The Indian currency has been under pressure from its rising import bill and sustained capital outflows, even prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appeal to citizens to help conserve foreign exchange.
    Sri Jegarajah,Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • Indeed, those connected services and their possible links to the Chinese state were scary enough to US lawmakers to drum up bipartisan support for new regulations that bar their import, absent an authorization from the Department of Commerce.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The three Jeffs, likely during a moment of desperation, made an agreement to split the winnings and invited Davis to join them.
    Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • People overhear the worst possible information at the worst possible moment.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026

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“Front burner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/front%20burner. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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