emphasizes

VERB

stress, give priority to

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accentuate affirm assert highlight indicate maintain point out reiterate repeat underline underscore

STRONG

accent articulate charge dramatize enlarge enunciate headline hit impress italicize mark pinpoint press pronounce punctuate spotlight weight

WEAK

bear down dwell on insist on labor the point limelight make a point make clear make emphatic make much of play up point up put accent on rub in

Antonyms

STRONGEST

deny

STRONG

lose mumble

WEAK

depreciate forget ignore play down understate

Example Sentences

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“This underscores, or reemphasizes, the importance that the president of the United States know what they are doing on the world stage,” Strong said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Instead, it reemphasizes the importance of strong state policy, they said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

“This report reemphasizes that the debt is growing at an unsustainable pace,” Riedl said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

Rather it reemphasizes that such treatment must comprehensively address nutrition, physical activity, behavior and, if needed, medication or bariatric surgery.

From Scientific American • Nov. 21, 2020

And this, in turn, reemphasizes the wisdom of flexibility in present planning and the need to keep big irreversible decisions to a minimum.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.