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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of emphasise.

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  • adjective spoken with emphasis

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Examples

  • In this case, even the title emphasised Bono's boys as victims rather than culprits: "U2 brand green criticism 'unfair'".

    Archive 2009-08-15 2009

  • Announcing the change, Speaker Michael Martin emphasised how difficult an MPs job was.

    MP's Vote for Extended Summer Recess Dungeekin 2009

  • Keane acknowledged as much when he again emphasised how his squad needs to be strengthened if it is to have a chance of competing with teams such as Cardiff City or Queens Park Rangers for promotion.

    Ipswich overcome early jitters to end Northampton's dream run Richard Rae at Portman Road 2010

  • Announcing the change, Speaker Michael Martin emphasised how difficult an MPs job was.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • This is useful if I'm after a specific morsel of information say an acute need, but detrimental to me if I'm after finding a resource say a site on a niche topic where posts might not be SEO keyword emphasised (which imho is a massive fraud by many sites in search results).

    Waxy.org Links 2009

  • I doubt the drafters of the document would have "emphasised" the preamble if they had not thought it worthy to be "affirmed".

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Mazimhaka emphasised the importance of getting peacekeepers on the ground in Somalia as soon as possible: "African countries do not consider it necessary to have a place stabilised and then send in troops.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • If Morrison's film doesn't entirely succeed in this respect, the film often having the look of a television mini-series with several of the encounters between the principals being rather stagily scripted and over-enunciated by a cast of mixed internationals with the kind of emphasised Spanish accents that one dreads in such productions,

    DVD Times 2009

  • "Production is now promotion," emphasised "cross-media specialist" Christy Dena: letting audiences in on the creative act - through blogs and responses, releasing snippets and extras, you name it - and making a bigger, more interactive "Project Universe", is the way to woo viewers.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Nick Bradshaw 2008

  • The first thing to be emphasised by their secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, following the announcement of William and Kate's engagement, was that, in the midst of their personal happiness, the couple were "mindful of the economic situation".

    Loved the postcard from Klosters, George, it said it all | Catherine Bennett 2011

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