when a piece of news is overshadowed by another importance event

[alpacinou]

Hello,

I am looking for an idiom or a verb which means a piece of news is overshadowed and marginalized owing to something larger and more important taking place.

For example, Apple and Google sign a cooperation deal which is a significant piece of news and then the cornavirus hit. So people have forgotten about that deal between Apple and Google and newspapers do not cover it and nobody talks about it. All the news reports tend to be about the coronavirus.

The news of the deal between the two technology giants was...amid the outbreak of the coronavirus.

What verb or idiom can I use in the blank?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

You could say "drowned out."

 

[jutfrank]

I think your overshadowed is good.

 

[alpacinou]

You could say "drowned out."

I like that! I thought that is for sound.

 

[alpacinou]

I could not find this definition and usage for drown out in any dictionaries. Could you kindly write down a full example of it?

 

[alpacinou]

Is this okay?

The news of the deal between the two technology giants was drowned out amid/by(?) the outbreak of the coronavirus.

 

[Tarheel]

Re: when a piece of news is overshadowed by another important event

Use by.

 

[Rover_KE]

I could not find this definition and usage for drown out in any dictionaries. Could you kindly write down a full example of it?

See one or two of the Usage examples here.