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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spotlighting
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But lawmakers have been chugging away at a lengthy docket, focusing on issues from state budgets to cell phones in schools.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026 -
By focusing on arbitrary numbers rather than specific pathogens, the state forces legal growers to treat safe flower, stripping it of quality.—
Rino Ferrarese,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
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Chicago police are asking for the public's help with identifying a teenage boy accused of shooting an innocent bystander in the Loop earlier this month.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
1 Mar. 2026
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But removing the enabling without identifying a goal is just going to cause conflict.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Kremlin has since received thousands of the drones and begun producing them based on Iranian designs, highlighting their reproducible and scalable design.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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His opponent James Fishback — a relative political unknown who has used racist and white nationalist rhetoric throughout his campaign — is highlighting the generational divide around extremism on the right in Florida.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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But Adebayo has never won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award, and there’s little Defensive Player of the Year buzz for Adebayo at the moment despite the Heat featuring a top-five defense this season.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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Flying is the company’s second Nova-C lander named Athena featuring NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, to land a drill and mass spectrometer near the south pole of the moon in order to demonstrate the feasibility of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and measure the volatile content of subsurface samples.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2026
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Attorney General Pam Bondi commented on the lawsuits, emphasizing that accurate voter rolls are an integral part of election security.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues to recommend that citizens defer all travel to Iran, emphasizing caution in light of the uncertain security climate.—
Hana Al-Khodairi,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Spotlighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spotlighting. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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