accentuation

Example Sentences

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As I scrolled through posts on WallStreetBets, I realized that the crowd gathered online was all about risk accentuation, not mitigation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Other parameters come into play, such as prosody, which includes pauses, accentuation and intonation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

“Goma faces four types of risks: accentuation of earthquakes, a new volcanic eruption, explosion of gas pockets under the lake, and the toxicity of the ambient environment,” he said at a news conference on Wednesday.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

Intonation, the proper accentuation of some words over others in a sentence, all of these are crucial elements of Cash’s eventual success.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2018

The short hair accentuated his features, specifically his too-close-together beady eyes, which did not stand up well to accentuation.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green