emphasis
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"In the current situation, we must place great emphasis on saving foreign exchange," he added.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Paul Allen, president of Airship AI, a surveillance intelligence system, said the administration’s emphasis on securing the border has led companies serving other sectors to begin applying their technologies to border security.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Barton builds up Mozart’s role, with emphasis on his home life, which he fills with discord and challenges of his own devising.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Robins frames the emphasis on prediction markets as proactive, writing that “this category is still in its first inning, and we believe DraftKings is best positioned to define it.”
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
The traditional historiographical emphasis on the new physics assumes that the mathematization of the world began in the seventeenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing emphasis
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 31-40
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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