illuminate vs put on center stage

illuminate

noun
  • Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment. 

verb
  • To be exposed to light. 

  • To shine light on something. 

  • To glow; to light up. 

  • To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs. 

  • To decorate something with lights. 

  • To clarify or make something understandable. 

  • To make spectacular. 

  • To direct a radar beam toward. 

put on center stage

How often have the words illuminate and put on center stage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )