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emphasis

Definition for emphasis

noun as in importance, prominence

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Around this time each year, there is always renewed emphasis on the goal of independence from the party's leadership.

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This week, the stock pulled back to its 21-day exponential moving average—a metric that places emphasis on recent price changes—for the first time since moving decisively upward from $260.97 last month.

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The heads of key health agencies advocated for putting the emphasis on leucovorin, but Kennedy became convinced that he had a moral duty to get the word out about the risk of acetaminophen.

But officials were divided over how much emphasis to put on the painkiller and were planning to discuss it as one of many possible causes, people familiar with the matter said.

“They have so much of an emphasis of like, ‘Oh, you should just build cool things,’ ” he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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