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emphasize

[em-fuh-sahyz] / ˈɛm fəˌsaɪz /


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The authors emphasize the need for broader studies involving more groups of animals, along with additional experiments aimed at understanding how signals arise, persist, and shape cooperative behavior.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

“To emphasize that Lestat is untouchable. Hence, building specific costume build shapes and patterns that we adapted throughout the season.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026

Joined by Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito, Kavanaugh wrote separately to emphasize that the miscarriage-of-justice exception the court recognized only applies in narrow waiver cases.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

What he wanted to emphasize were the qualities of baseball that were “different, unique and a little bit weird.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

To emphasize the fact that suffragists were to be regarded as common criminals, the wardens at the two facilities put them in the same cells with women who had been convicted of committing serious crimes.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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