emphasis
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But eventually, you reach an age where you put more emphasis on faith than the leap itself.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
That ties in with its emphasis on controlling information, securing data and maintaining social stability.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
He called for a renewed emphasis on technical education and wanted to see a decade of council house building on the scale of the post-war Labour government.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
With last year and last week in mind, how much emphasis did Riley and company place on special teams with a critical matchup with Oregon upcoming?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I pull out the vial and hold it up for emphasis.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
Where Hearts had made the right choices in key moments, Celtic too often took the wrong option with passes, crosses and emphases.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
There were emphases on ballhandling, shooting from midrange, being aggressive, driving to the basket and finishing around the rim.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
By strict definition, "classical education" refers to a series of liberal arts emphases on subjects like grammar, logic, rhetoric and math.
From Salon ● May 31, 2022
Literature would be a language which dispenses with gesture, facial expression, tone of voice; which is, in its halts, accelerations and retardations, emphases and concessions, the apotheosis of conversation.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
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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