"conspicuous instance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly noticeable or noteworthy example or occurrence. Example: The recent protests were a conspicuous instance of the power of collective action to effect change.
The movement known as Institutional Critique, which obsessively parses the system by which art is circulated and consumed and has been, paradoxically, much favored by museum curators, is only the most conspicuous instance of this blinkered view of real, multidimensional life in the world at large.
He is a conspicuous instance of a self-made man.
The most conspicuous instance of this self-destruction was the imposition of controls on bank deposits last December.
A conspicuous instance of a supertask which is kinematically impossible is the one performed by Black's infinity machine, whose task it is to transport a ball from position A (x = 0) to position B (x = 1) and from B to A an infinite number of times in one hour.
In his The Constitution of Liberty (1960) he said, "The most conspicuous instance of this in our society is that of the treatment of homosexuality".
A very conspicuous instance of such variation is found in the ALNs, which appear in clusters of variable cell numbers in P. litorale but only as single neurons or neuron pairs in Meridionale sp. and C. japonicus.
Omitting the few conspicuous instances in which actual earners of money make extraordinary fortunes by exceptional personal gifts or strokes of luck, the existing differences of income among workers are not individual but corporate differences.
Below I list the most conspicuous instances of this pattern of discontinuity in the biological and pre-biological domains, and outline the central aspects of the respective evolutionary transitions.
The buyout of United Airlines by its employees is the most conspicuous recent instance.
The Spanish armies won some conspicuous victories for instance, the capture of Breda from the Dutch (1626) and the defeat of the Swedes and Weimarians at Nördlingen (1634 but France declared open war in 1635, and Spain's early successes were offset, from 1640, by the separatist rebellions of Catalonia and of Portugal Portugall becoming independent in 1640 under John IV of the House of Bragança).
One conspicuous example is Fathom.
