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a. important or well publicized.
Usage examples of "high-profile".
Chief Constable, wanting to know what other crime prevention measures could have been put in place for the cost of busting one high-profile bloke smoking a bit of dope in the privacy of his own home.
The day after Paul Castellano and Tommy Bilotti were shot, Bruce Mouw dispatched agents on the Gambino squad to check on high-profile family members.
New York, her powder puff apartment and high-profile position on the board of the Guggenheim, to live in a trailer on the infield of a racetrack thirty-six weeks a year.
Juxtaposed against the high-profile celebrity murder of Spyder Nielsen, the hypothetical question might make a great book.
He had been involved one way or another in many high-profile Washington scandals for the last 25 years.
The chief of staff and I talked for a few minutes in the hallway He went out of his way to tell me that I had been handpicked for the investigation because of my expertise with high-profile killers, especially psychopaths.
Both men have high-profile roles in CANF, the dominant anti-Castro lobby that claims not to support violence or terrorism.
Dean had told him that Travis Beaman, who had handled Justin Ktill's adoption, was a senior partner in a high-profile tax law firm.
The Baltimore City Police, which maintained a high-profile presence at Johns Hopkins at all times—.
Another high-profile woman caught under the harsh light of public scrutiny - and another class action defense!
Being a high-profile elected official, subject to the whims of voters every so often, he would certainly hide behind an alias.
In usual circumstances such a high-profile find would have been offered for examination to one of the more experienced senior staff, but Amy was having an affair with a hypertense married man named Miles Bernardier who functioned as the present director of the excavation, and Miles was able to take a procedural short cut that allowed him to assign the find himself.
Me, a guaranteed table at Elaine's, more high-profile clients, and a big, juicy bank account, and Ultima, publicity that kept John Q.
Me, a guaranteed table at Elaine's, more high-profile clients, and a big, juicy bank account, and Ultima, publicity that kept John Q. Public from finding out what kind of a monster he really was.
Dennis Dinsmore has been working back-to-back high-profile homicide cases in Oregon, and running in marathons when he has rare moments off.