emphasis
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Apple’s emphasis on digital privacy made targeted marketing more difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Among other reform ideas, Warsh has discussed changing how the Fed thinks about inflation, including greater emphasis on “better” measures such as the Dallas Fed’s trimmed-mean personal consumption expenditures index.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
In a miraculous Einsteinian world, no word, no image, no emotion wants emphasis.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The duchy has its roots in medieval, feudal land ownership, but it has been having something of an image make-over, with an emphasis on social value, such as providing affordable housing and protecting the environment.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The noise from the music room hammers around us in emphasis, copying the beating of my heart.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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