emphases

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Where Hearts had made the right choices in key moments, Celtic too often took the wrong option with passes, crosses and emphases.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

“Coming to work, being humble and understanding that we haven’t done much,” McCain said of the defense’s emphases.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

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

Mrs Thorne was so well satisfied with the sound of the new word which she had coined that she repeated it twice with different emphases.

From The New Mistress A Tale by Fenn, George Manville