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  • noun Plural form of foreground.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreground.

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Examples

  • Only one title foregrounds questions of aesthetic evaluation.

    In 1950, what was published in PMLA? 2007

  • Only one title foregrounds questions of aesthetic evaluation.

    The Little Professor: 2007

  • JK: Your book's title foregrounds the issue of gender in the discussion of violence.

    Jackson Katz: Conversation with Philosopher on School Shootings 2008

  • The fundamental skewing of what seems familiar recasts the nominally secular culture of contemporary America in a way that foregrounds the religiosity that pervades it at the deepest level.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • They need to embrace a culture that values not only individual rights and foregrounds the role of the citizen in political and social life, but minority rights as well.

    Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism M.D. Ziad J. Asali 2011

  • As such, the character foregrounds questions about the political consequences of television's use of queer cultural signifiers and the pleasures that viewers take in a parodic representation of queerness on television.

    Media Matters 2009

  • The easy answer is no – because the standard histories are reliable, and even include a decent amount of material that Hochschild foregrounds.

    To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild – review 2011

  • And textually as well, once you get past the initial weirdness you realise that it makes a strange sort of sense; it universalises the story but it also foregrounds the bubble-reality status of the world of high school, suggests that on some level all the kids are “outsiders” — All-American Levi as much as oddball Chance.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I like how this story points foregrounds our completely arbitrary standards of decency and what constitutes “nudity” in what contexts.

    When Misogyny Met Transphobia « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • Kren runs through the hallmarks of zombie-pocalypse -- we watch as our hero listens to waning radio reports in bewilderment, abandons safety when food runs out, and crafts an ingenious getaway -- but unexpectedly foregrounds the protagonist's troubled romance.

    Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings Farihah Zaman 2010

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