high-profile

adjective

: attracting a lot of attention in newspapers, on television, etc.

a high-profile legal case

a high-profile athlete

She has a very high-profile job.

Examples of high-profile in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is a busy week for Detroit Youth Choir: Half the group is in Kenya with director-founder Anthony White to perform in a music festival; the other members were enlisted for the high-profile hometown appearance. —

Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2024 But TikTok, created by a Chinese company only for the overseas market and evidence of the nation’s tech powers on the global stage, is a high-profile case that Beijing does not want to lose. —

Didi Tang, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2024 The 73-year-old democrat — who has recently come under fire for the mishandling of a high-profile murder case in which two prosecutors were tossed by a judge — was first appointed to office in 1993 and elected a year later. —

Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024 Chris Dortch – the editor of Blue Ribbon’s College Basketball Yearbook, a 400-page annual preview of all Division I teams – noted that even the most high-profile programs are fighting to keep their best players for more than a year. —

Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024 Related Articles Rockies’ high-profile prospects Riley Pint, Michael Toglia and Zac Veen still waiting to break out In his debut with the Rockies in 1993, Castilla platooned at shortstop with Freddie Benavides. —

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2024 There are parallels between the two high-profile events, most starkly the proliferation of similar protests around the country, as students call for an end to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. —

Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Apr. 2024 These high-profile mishaps have given flying a bad name and made countless passengers ponder which seats on a plane are safest and which are the most dangerous. —

Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2024 Pitino would later serve as the University of Louisville’s coach from 2001-2017 amid that program’s own high-profile scandals. —

Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 15 Apr. 2024

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