"lost in the shuffle" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1975 July, Gil Scott-Heron, “Lost in the Shuffle”, in Ebony, volume 30, number 9, Johnson Publishing Company, page 28",
          "text": "We have allowed ourselves to be \"lost in the shuffle\" of American priorities in the '70s, but we should never lose sight of ourselves and our goals as our priorities.",
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          "ref": "1987, Robert Subby, Lost in the shuffle: the co-dependent reality, HCI, page 39",
          "text": "We get lost in the shuffle, and in the end we don't even know that we have needs - much less know what these needs might be.",
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          "ref": "1992, Michael G. Kalogerakis, Handbook of psychiatric practice in the juvenile court: the Workgroup on Psychiatric Practice in the Juvenile Court of the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Pub, page 24",
          "text": "In the occasional highly publicized case, then, the best interests of the child may be lost in the shuffle.",
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        "Failing to stand out or receive attention as a result of a larger-scale change or transformation."
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        "(idiomatic, informal) Failing to stand out or receive attention as a result of a larger-scale change or transformation."
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