It's the sort of magic that HTC's been using for a while, but it does help the new phone to stand out from Samsung's existing phones that are starting to blur together.

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Finally, the internet craze made it hard for Carmax's brand to stand out as others rushed to sell used cars online.

FORBES: Unsung outperformers

It's better in a couple areas and worse in a couple others, but none of the scores are set to any sort of extreme -- in other words, the Verizon GS III doesn't stand out of the crowd for better or worse.

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"For me, black doesn't stand out, " he says.

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Still, a flair for technology won't be enough to stand out amidst the stupefying ad clutter.

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Even healthy banks have been arm-twisted into accepting taxpayers' money so that weaker rivals would not stand out for doing so.

ECONOMIST: Situation normal

Various things about the way they put the teams together, salary caps and drafts and things like that make it so that it's very difficult to stand out above the crowd for any long period of time.

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In cafes and houses either side of two countries' border, tens of millions will tune in for the stand-out tie of the Asian Cup so far.

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In one stand-out case, an employee was sacked for unprofessional conduct after he was found to have bugged his boss's office.

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We're taking the politics out of unemployment insurance for the 2 million people that would stand to lose those benefits this year and the millions more next year that could see those benefits threatened.

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