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  • verb Present participle of stress.

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Examples

  • Supporters gave him a bouquet of white roses and some chanted his name stressing each syllable, Na-val-ny!

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN 2011

  • Republicans holding to their policy of no real need for change, Democrats again stressing the need for complete overhaul.

    House Democrats splinter over health care 2009

  • He calls this year's typically jolly version "Swing in the Holiday," a title stressing one aspect of his musical inclinations and assiduously avoiding mention of Christmas, because -- Jewish with what could be called a predisposition to the kibbitz -- he celebrates Christmas and Hannukah by honoring and kidding both holidays.

    David Finkle: Michael Feinstein: Top-of-the-Heap Singer, Equally Important Music Archivist-Historian David Finkle 2010

  • He calls this year's typically jolly version "Swing in the Holiday," a title stressing one aspect of his musical inclinations and assiduously avoiding mention of Christmas, because -- Jewish with what could be called a predisposition to the kibbitz -- he celebrates Christmas and Hannukah by honoring and kidding both holidays.

    David Finkle: Michael Feinstein: Top-of-the-Heap Singer, Equally Important Music Archivist-Historian David Finkle 2010

  • He calls this year's typically jolly version "Swing in the Holiday," a title stressing one aspect of his musical inclinations and assiduously avoiding mention of Christmas, because -- Jewish with what could be called a predisposition to the kibbitz -- he celebrates Christmas and Hannukah by honoring and kidding both holidays.

    David Finkle: Michael Feinstein: Top-of-the-Heap Singer, Equally Important Music Archivist-Historian David Finkle 2010

  • He calls this year's typically jolly version "Swing in the Holiday," a title stressing one aspect of his musical inclinations and assiduously avoiding mention of Christmas, because -- Jewish with what could be called a predisposition to the kibbitz -- he celebrates Christmas and Hannukah by honoring and kidding both holidays.

    David Finkle: Michael Feinstein: Top-of-the-Heap Singer, Equally Important Music Archivist-Historian David Finkle 2010

  • NASA HQ also does not acknowledge its role in stressing the MSL development process by levying operational requirements on the mission that were not desired by the scientific community.

    Push Back on MSL Cuts - NASA Watch 2007

  • What the MSM should be stressing is that Bush and Rove placed politics above national security -- not pretending that Dems who catch them at it are playing games to score points and win votes.

    07/26/2005 2005

  • Wicksell in stressing that - even in a state of balance between total demand and supply - the volume of purchasing power could rise when some prices go up.

    Bertil Ohlin - Autobiography 1992

  • He has followed the great tradition of the brilliant era of the nineteenth century in stressing the line of development which can be continued.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1933 - Presentation Speech 1933

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