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emphases

NOUN

importance, prominence

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attention insistence intensity priority significance strength stress weight

STRONG

accent accentuation force headline highlight impressiveness moment positiveness power preeminence

WEAK

decidedness underlining underscoring

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance lethargy triviality unimportance

STRONG

incompetence weakness

WEAK

insignificance

Example Sentences

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An agency spokesperson told ProPublica it is not unusual for the institute to publish directors’ letters with grant applications, and that this one informs readers “about this Administration’s thematic emphases in the semi-quincentennial year.”

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Their language and emphases may be different, but the diagnosis is the same.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

There were emphases on ballhandling, shooting from midrange, being aggressive, driving to the basket and finishing around the rim.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

The conductor, Riccardo Frizza, said that he was aiming to match the production by bringing out “the modernity of this score,” with a focus on transparency and emphases on certain words in the libretto.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

For not only is the profession of the Christian ministry a many-sided one, but scales of value change and emphases shift, within the calling itself, with our changing civilization.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker