emphasis
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While Katayama declined to comment on specific exchange-rate levels, her emphasis on maintaining orderly market conditions reflects continued concern over one-sided, speculative yen movements that could disrupt business planning and raise import costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
His collections were worshipped for their emphasis on individuality.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Yet Pradhan said there remained a widespread belief that Shah represented "a different form of politics", particularly through his government's emphasis on fighting corruption.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nepal's prime minister, Balendra Shah, said there was a renewed emphasis on protecting the lives of survivors, providing medical treatment and psychological counselling.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
She was the only person in the Milky Way who called me by my full name, extra emphasis on the first syllable.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
The show’s photos, predominantly in black and white, document these dramatic emphases as revealed by the stances and gestures of Graham and her dedicated group of women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Their language and emphases may be different, but the diagnosis is the same.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
The difference was not just one of opposing political ideologies but of vastly different cultural and human emphases.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2024
You could hear Nézet-Séguin working out the dynamic emphases in real time at Carnegie.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
We should find them all leading us to essentially the same great emphases.
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King
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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