front and center

adverb

: in or to the forefront of activity or consideration

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Venus and Pluto’s clash pushes someone front and center in your frontal lobe. Usa Today, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026 This keeps the humility front and center. Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026 Nowhere is the role of AI more front and center than in New York's 12th Congressional District. Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026 And what’s especially interesting is, rather than place a big touchscreen front and center, Hyundai’s gone the direction of tinier, modular screens that can ostensibly be added, removed, or rearranged in the owner’s preference. Adam Ismail, The Drive, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for front and center

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of front and center was in 1938

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“Front and center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/front%20and%20center. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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