in plain sight

idiom

chiefly US
: in a place that is easily seen
He carried his gun in plain sight.

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People smoked fentanyl in plain sight and clustered at the usual spots: around the public library, the Burnside St. McDonald’s, along Alder St., in the parking lot beneath the closed Montessori school. Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025 But that’s just it: they’re integrated into our city’s infrastructure, hiding in plain sight, doing double duty — the way all our infrastructure must — to beautify these neighborhoods and keep us safer against deluge. Jeff Roth, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025 In other words, what was visible to so much of the world was hiding in plain sight as the most transformative, economy and life-enhancing commodity the world has ever known. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 No special skills were needed to locate the bounty given they were spread out across the grass in plain sight. Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in plain sight

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“In plain sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20plain%20sight. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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