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- noun a reduction in
emphasis . - noun the act of de-emphasizing.
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Examples
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With the news yesterday that the Sci-Fi Channel is becoming SyFy (with a de-emphasis on actual SF) you can hear SF fans everywhere crying out in anguish.
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With the news yesterday that the Sci-Fi Channel is becoming SyFy (with a de-emphasis on actual SF) you can hear SF fans everywhere crying out in anguish.
March 2009 2009
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The de-emphasis of the HR function during the 1990s, for example, left agency leaders ill-prepared to meet the strategic hiring, performance and retention challenges that have been plaguing government.
Max Stier: The Perils of the Wrong Budget Cuts Max Stier 2011
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Others say abstinence-only sex education and a possible de-emphasis on birth control may play a part.
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We have seen the start of this process with the de-emphasis of the lunar outpost in favour of NEO encounters.
Griffin - No Human Space Flight Review Needed - NASA Watch 2009
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The de-emphasis of the HR function during the 1990s, for example, left agency leaders ill-prepared to meet the strategic hiring, performance and retention challenges that have been plaguing government.
Max Stier: The Perils of the Wrong Budget Cuts Max Stier 2011
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But Comerica's de-emphasis on commercial mortgages continues to dampen the expansion of the bank's overall loan book.
Regional Banks Find You Can't Win for Growing All the Time Matthias Rieker 2011
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EA's revenue in the period declined to $1.05 billion from $1.24 billion a year earlier, a drop the company says was largely due to its de-emphasis of a distribution business through which it ships other companies' games to retailers.
EA Posts Wider Loss Nick Wingfield 2011
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The global economic recession and the de-emphasis of HIV/AIDS treatment in favor of other global health initiatives threatens to undermine the impressive results achieved thus far in treating HIV/AIDS in the resource limited setting.
Anand Reddi: United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama Anand Reddi 2010
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America's role in the world and a rapid de-emphasis on military solutions and restoration of the principles of international law.
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