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The phrase "are spotlights" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves as a focus or highlight in a particular context, often in discussions about attention or emphasis.
Example: "In the presentation, the key points are spotlights that guide the audience's understanding of the topic."
Alternatives: "are highlights" or "serve as focal points".
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are spotlights
noun
A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.
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Nevinson had used these lines before the war, for example in the drawing titled "The Strand," in which the force lines are spotlights turned on the crowd in London's exuberant theater district.
It's true that the gallery atmosphere works to reduce its drama: where there should be a dirt floor there is parquet; where there should be shadows there are spotlights.
As the late poet and activist Audre Lorde wrote in her essay "Uses of Anger": "my anger and your attendant fears are spotlights that can be used for growth in the same way that I have used learning to express anger for my growth".
In downtown Anacostia, on the corner of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave, there are spotlights already pointing to, and waiting for, a totem pole.
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The objects that occasion these thoughts rest on standard pedestals and are spotlighted like jewels.
Portraits of ordinary everyday black women are spotlighted, poised as though they are royalty.
But the show's creators are spotlighting the importance and the influence of George M. Cohan.
Some examples of the entrepreneurial activities of the research groups are spotlighted.
We are spotlighting the awful conditions which these youth must endure, simply because they are LGBTQ.
There were spotlights and cameras on the catwalk.
Both movies are virtually undirected; they're spotlights for a succession of moments of performance.
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