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foreground

noun as in part of a scene nearest the viewer

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noun as in prominent or important position

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But the featured clips don’t foreground the broadsheet’s noble history.

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He fills the wide screen with bursts of light or a background giving way to a fantasy sequence while the dreamer remains in the foreground, with zooms and cutting and odd angles.

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A leaping male diver seen from behind dominates the lower foreground, angled toward the water.

Some foreground our differences — the textures we prize, the sweetness we expect, the ways we learn to eat.

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Details about Alejandro’s friendship with Julian, both Mexican students in the United States with a shared passion for tennis, will eventually come into the foreground.

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

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