front and center

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1. idiomaticA command to approach the center of attention of an assemblage, as of military personnel or students.

alternative front-and-center · alternative front and centre · alternative front-and-centre

1. idiomaticnot comparableAt the center of attention.

   Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]

   2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   All these familiar flavors are again front and center in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the feature that returns Aardman to theatrical stop-motion after the CGI of Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.

   2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 28 May 2013

   But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”

   2016 August 21, Paul McClean, “Supermarkets and suppliers take stock of relationships”, in Financial Times

   The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is putting climate change front and centre in a speech committing his party to cooperating with Labor and turfing out a government that “don’t deserve to govern”.

   2018 September 2, Richard Parkin, “Morning mail: Greens put climate change front and centre”, in The Guardian

   Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center.

   2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023