the limelight
noun
: public attention or notice thought of as a bright light that shines on someone
She is a very private woman who never sought the limelight.
When his new book caused an unexpected controversy, he was thrust into the limelight once again.
He doesn't like having to share the limelight with other actors.
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Recently, plastic has been in the limelight but for the wrong reasons.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
That meant we were given a warts-and-all window into her endless humiliations, on camera and off, as Valerie attempted to claw her way back into the limelight.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
Jordan also wrote that Melania Trump was put off by the way Ivanka Trump sought the limelight during the 2017 inauguration and transformed herself into the de facto first lady in the first months of Trump’s administration, when Melania chose to stay in New York with her son, Barron.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
The Last Showgirl is reluctant to abandon the limelight.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
That meant we were given a warts-and-all window into her endless humiliations, on camera and off, as Valerie attempted to claw her way back into the limelight.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
Jordan also wrote that Melania Trump was put off by the way Ivanka Trump sought the limelight during the 2017 inauguration and transformed herself into the de facto first lady in the first months of Trump’s administration, when Melania chose to stay in New York with her son, Barron.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
The Last Showgirl is reluctant to abandon the limelight.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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“The limelight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20limelight. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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