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Which musical instruction tells a performer to give a note particular emphasis?

emphasis

[em-fuh-sis] / ˈɛm fə sɪs /


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Diez told MarketWatch that Agility’s emphasis on safety and its ability to deploy autonomous humanoids sets it apart from competitors.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

In their second attempt at securing a conviction, prosecutors are putting less emphasis on Rinderknecht’s alleged resentment of the wealthy, instead highlighting laboratory tests they allege prove that a lighter could ignite the hillside vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The team's findings also suggest that the traditional emphasis on East African fossils may have provided an incomplete view of this much older evolutionary story.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

One of the Chinese EV industry’s pioneers, XPeng founder He Xiaopeng, has said cars alone are no longer a viable business strategy, echoing Musk’s recent emphasis on Tesla’s Optimus robots and robotaxis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The woman behind the desk asked even more personal questions while Ann, standing before her, was forced to explain her life—with a special emphasis on her problems—to a roomful of strangers.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Still, Treuer admits, “there is a movement from the local to the quasi-universal through the three books, the same mixture in all three, just with different emphases on historical, reported and memoiristic material.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

The subtleties, the nuances, the different emphases of different countries, on a huge range of issues - and changing all the time.

From BBC ● May 21, 2023

You could hear Nézet-Séguin working out the dynamic emphases in real time at Carnegie.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Again, if the general influence of the social consciousness upon theological doctrine is to be recognized at all, it is evident that a Christian theology must take full account of Christ's own social emphases.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King


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