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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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"The cause that gets the most emphasis right now is AI safety, but I think it would be false to say EA is AI safety," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Gomez said customers in the region have historically placed greater emphasis on sovereignty and control over technology than those in Europe and Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

There was particular emphasis on the governor race in Texas where about a quarter of all data centers were planned.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 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 traditional historiographical emphasis on the new physics assumes that the mathematization of the world began in the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

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


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