prominent
widely known and important, or standing out so as to be easily noticed
Prominent in a sentence
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A prominent economist was brought in to settle the dispute, though her answer satisfied neither side.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
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