become conspicuous
Frequency: 6.07.5 per million words
to start to be very noticeable
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Examples (10)
- As the surrounding trees were cleared, the old house on the hill became conspicuous.
- He became conspicuous in the crowd because of his bright red jacket.
- If we don't address this small error now, it will become conspicuous in the final report.
- The wealth gap has become increasingly conspicuous in recent years.
- The monument is becoming conspicuous as new, shorter buildings are constructed around it.
- The white rabbit became conspicuous against the dark soil after the snow melted.
- The anomaly in the data became conspicuous only after repeated analysis.
- As the only one not clapping, her silence became conspicuous.
- A single spelling mistake becomes conspicuous on an otherwise perfect document.
- Once he started challenging the new policy, he quickly became conspicuous to upper management.