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emphasis
noun as in importance, prominence
Strongest matches
attention, insistence, intensity, priority, significance, strength, stress, weight
Strong matches
accent, accentuation, force, headline, highlight, impressiveness, moment, positiveness, power, preeminence
Weak matches
decidedness, underlining, underscoring
Example Sentences
In London, there’s far more emphasis put on the food than anything else, I feel.
In response to the increased emphasis on nostalgia, there are now more ways of communicating online that aren’t meant to last.
There are screen-based offerings as well, but the emphasis is often on the communal, as evidenced by the anyone-can-be-an-artist zaniness that is “Sloppy Forgeries.”
The BBFC's latest annual report said the rating was changed because of "violence and threat" in the film, despite this being "offset by humour and an emphasis on loyalty in adversity".
"South Africa are putting a massive emphasis on the development of props and especially the scrum," La Rochelle scrum coach Steenkamp added.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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