emphasize

[Em·pha*size]

To emphasize is to make something important, or stress it, like when you were little and your parents would always emphasize the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street. They told you again and again and again. And again.

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To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

Verb
to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

Verb
give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words"


v. t.
To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.


Emphasize

Em"pha*size , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emphasized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emphasizing .] To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

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Usage Examples

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

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Other Usage Examples

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

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