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high-profile en · ADJ
Meanings
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Important or well publicized.
Pacers should have all been withdrawn by now, but that has been scuppered by a failure to deliver new trains on time and delays to infrastructure projects.
The most high-profile withdrawals were to be Northern's Class 142s and '144s' (the latter by the end of 2018, and the '142s' by the end of last year).
2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 62:Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:The incident, which happened on August 5, came to light after officers leaked footage from the station's CCTV camera to a high-profile lawyer and a popular investigative TV show.
2021 August 25, SCMP Reporter, “Death of Thai man after police extortion attempt captured on viral video, sparks public anger”, in This Week in Asia, South China Morning Post, retrieved 25 Aug 2021:
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low-profile