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emphases

NOUN

importance, prominence

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attention insistence intensity priority significance strength stress weight

STRONG

accent accentuation force headline highlight impressiveness moment positiveness power preeminence

WEAK

decidedness underlining underscoring

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance lethargy triviality unimportance

STRONG

incompetence weakness

WEAK

insignificance

Example Sentences

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Their language and emphases may be different, but the diagnosis is the same.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

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

The conductor, Riccardo Frizza, said that he was aiming to match the production by bringing out “the modernity of this score,” with a focus on transparency and emphases on certain words in the libretto.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

The emphases have all been slightly shifted, but shifted according to a valid scheme.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton