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- verb Present participle of
stress .
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Examples
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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
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Republicans holding to their policy of no real need for change, Democrats again stressing the need for complete overhaul.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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He has followed the great tradition of the brilliant era of the nineteenth century in stressing the line of development which can be continued.
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