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Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” the 2011 movie that features Gwyneth Paltrow as patient zero in a flu pandemic, has been hogging the contamination movie spotlight since the novel coronavirus hit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020

But recently, “The Goldfinch” has been hogging the spotlight.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014

Photograph: Howard C Smith/isiphotos.com/Corbis Joey Barton is not football's only social-networking enthusiast in search of a new club, even if he has been hogging this week's headlines.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2011

Its $50 billion takeover of Alcon, an American eye-care firm, unveiled early this month, has been hogging the headlines.

From Economist • Jan. 14, 2010