in the shadow of
idiom
1
: very close to
a town located in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains
2
: in a position of being unnoticed because all the attention is given to someone else
She grew up in the shadow of her very popular sister.
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By noon, more than a thousand people will have walked from the United States to Mexico, in the shadow of the thirty-foot wall that divides them.
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
All three books, published in the middle of the 19th century, in the shadow of the debt burdens that resulted from the Napoleonic Wars, speak to the pernicious aspects of debt – debtors prisons, debt collection and the surrender of properties caused by over-indebtedness.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
But a more pressing fear might be that in the shadow of AI, human beings are preparing their own obsolescence in advance, producing and consuming more and more creative work that seems algorithmic rather than inspired, accepting in blockbuster movies and ...
—Ross Douthat, National Review, 24 July 2025
His soul fretted in the shadow of his oppressor’s language, but the fiercely patriotic Irish nationalist—the citizen—is no hero either.
—Benjamin Hale
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
All three books, published in the middle of the 19th century, in the shadow of the debt burdens that resulted from the Napoleonic Wars, speak to the pernicious aspects of debt – debtors prisons, debt collection and the surrender of properties caused by over-indebtedness.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
But a more pressing fear might be that in the shadow of AI, human beings are preparing their own obsolescence in advance, producing and consuming more and more creative work that seems algorithmic rather than inspired, accepting in blockbuster movies and ...
—Ross Douthat, National Review, 24 July 2025
His soul fretted in the shadow of his oppressor’s language, but the fiercely patriotic Irish nationalist—the citizen—is no hero either.
—Benjamin Hale
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for in the shadow of
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