front burners

noun

plural of front burner
1
as in top billings

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2
as in imports

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for front burners
  1. spotlights
  2. imports
  3. consequences
  4. magnitudes
  5. moments
  6. significances
  7. exigencies
  8. weights
Noun
  • The dotted centers of the doodle-looking flowers were instead clusters of spotlights that could point in different directions.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This week's quiz spotlights summer escapes and remarkable love stories.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of spotlights
Noun
  • But only a tiny fraction of food imports to the US are actually inspected there.
    — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • With little rain forecast, countries across Central and Eastern Europe are turning to expensive imports as power demand rises.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of imports
Noun
  • The family is split for good — the consequences on people are just enormous.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Cohen draws a sharper line than the women do about the consequences of that bargain.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of consequences
Noun
  • Soccer, once a fringe sport, has grown by magnitudes since the last time a men’s World Cup was hosted here in 1994.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • While recorded on seismic sensors, traditional earthquake magnitudes are not appropriate for measuring atmospheric events.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
Definition of magnitudes
Noun
  • Domestic deployments have generally been reserved for relatively brief moments of extraordinary unrest, major security threats or natural disasters.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • His family is now part of a program built for moments like that involving a simple tool that could save a life.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of moments
Noun
  • Factors In Kenya’s Sovereign Credit Rating Rise There are usually multiple significances to a credit rating action.
    — Ann Rutledge, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Definition of significances
Noun
  • Potential finalists will be notified via email and will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, License of Work and Release of Liability/Publicity within three (3) days of date of notification, or a shorter time if required by exigencies, or a runner-up may be selected.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • The exigencies of the Revolution lead to promising more people representation.
    — KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
Definition of exigencies
Noun
  • Meta made the model's weights publicly available through Hugging Face.
    — Paulina Likos,Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Its chips never load the weights at all, because the weights are etched permanently into the transistors.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
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