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- verb Present participle of
emphasise .
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Examples
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The SNP, who somehow managed to grab hold of the report three days before anyone else, were naturally more interested in emphasising the perceived decrease in British "national identity".
"See me, hear me, but still you try to box me in"* O'Neill 2008
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And in emphasising “blamed†you mean to say that UBL wasn†™ t responsible for 9/11?
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And in emphasising “blamed” you mean to say that UBL wasn’t responsible for 9/11?
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I was taken to the Elysée Palace Hotel, where I found experienced publicists and numbers of charming well-bred women busy preparing information for the newspapers, and arranging public entertainments and sight-seeing tours for American troops in Paris, all with the idea of emphasising that Americans were now pouring into
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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Last week, the foundation observed the second spinal cord injury awareness day, with the idea of emphasising the need and importance of holistic rehabilitation facilities for people with spinal injuries, in Mumbai.
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Thatcher were being produced by the sackload - but long before, the idea of emphasising the struggle in a yuletide kind of way had been established by early socialists, Suffragettes, and many more.
The Guardian World News John Harris 2010
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On Friday, the UN's working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances issued a statement emphasising the illegality of "disappearances" under international law.
Tate Modern protest remembers China's missing dissidents 2011
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Eight months on, as the season of self-enrichment gets going in earnest, he now strikes a more timid tone – yesterday emphasising the structure rather than the scale of the loot, and pleading with those bailed-out financiers who are in the direct employ of the taxpayer "to be sensitive".
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That's very important to me and I have been emphasising it to everyone.
Rangers' chairman Alastair Johnson will leave club after takeover 2011
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Obituaries for Tingwell are consistently emphasising his willingness to take on new projects.
Take Your Life Philosophy From Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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