put in an appearance
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Harris was here just last fall, though it’s been a few years since President Joe Biden has put in an appearance.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Biden put in an appearance in Monterey Park, a city of about 60,000 people just east of Los Angeles, less than two months after a horrific mass shooting there.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2023
They also put in an appearance off the coast of Dover, in Kent.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2021
But when the reason is “I don’t want to” … usually you’re better off if you suck it up and put in an appearance.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2019
He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Center every evening for the past four years.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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