If there was a stranger in the neighborhood they stuck out like a sore thumb.

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It appears to be normal banking, whereas it would stick out like a sore thumb for non-financial companies.

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Put volume in excess of 18, 000 contracts sticks out like a sore thumb against open interest in the sparsely populated November contract.

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One of the star performers has been Qatar, a tiny rich emirate that sticks out of Saudi Arabia like a sore thumb.

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The one store which stood out like a sore thumb, at least here in my part of Connecticut, was JC Penney (JCP).

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This new logo is sticking out like a sore thumb.

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American secularism proved more alluring than the sore-thumb Jewish sort, and the camp closed in 1971.

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