on the map

phrase

: in a position of prominence or fame
… had put the fledgling university on the map.—Lon Tinkle

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The group also held up large red numbers, 305,968, showing how many signatures the campaign turned in to force a statewide vote on the map. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026 But many also have sprawling and lucrative exclusive economic zones, rich with fisheries and seabed minerals, and their locations across the wide Pacific Ocean have become strategically important points on the map as global tensions rise. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 Here's what to know about the restaurants, Beachyville shopping mall, and viral brand that's putting a tourist town with a population of less than 700 on the map for people across the internet and the world. — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images DeepSeek, the lab that put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map last January, has long been financed by High-Flyer Quant, its founder Liang Wenfeng’s hedge fund. — Anniek Bao,elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for on the map

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