emphasis
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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
Abraham Lincoln, for instance, evoked a biblical passage to frame the preamble’s emphasis on equality as a foundational American concept.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
In the duchy's new strategy, there will be a greater emphasis on five areas where it is a landowner - Bath, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Isles of Scilly and Kennington in south London.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Wisløff and Tari are now encouraging Norwegian health authorities to revise the country's official exercise recommendations, arguing that exercise intensity should receive greater emphasis.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Not much of a word, but the emphasis seems to have hit him nonetheless.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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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