Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is put a spotlight on and it is a phrase meaning “to draw/bring attention to something; highlight, accentuate, underscore, underline”.
Example Sentence: Chess generally hits the headlines only for reasons external to the game itself:.. Now, the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen’s airing of suspicions over the play of the 19-year-old US grandmaster Hans Niemann has put chess into the spotlight again. Carlsen has been world champion since 2013. Niemann is a tyro who has made astonishingly rapid progress recently. Carlsen has publicly questioned that trajectory, saying on Twitter last week that “his over the board progress has been unusual”.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on chess cheating claims: innocent until proven guilty and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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