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put in an appearance
Also, make an appearance. Be present, especially for a short time, as in We were hoping the rock star would put in an appearance, but she didn't show up, or She was tired and didn't want to go to the party, but decided she had to make an appearance. [Second half of 1600s]
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Pop music superstar Beyoncé put in an appearance to endorse Harris, telling the crowd she wasn’t there as a celebrity but as a mother, “who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in.”
Harris was here just last fall, though it’s been a few years since President Joe Biden has put in an appearance.
Biden put in an appearance in Monterey Park, a city of about 60,000 people just east of Los Angeles, less than two months after a horrific mass shooting there.
Poppies don’t bloom in December — not even here — and roses put in an appearance only betimes.
When no one had bothered him for a while, he asked, “Isn't it time for ‘Old Temperature’ to put in an appearance?”
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