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📖 Определения и значения для слова emphasis

📒 special importance that is given to something

  • emphasis on/upon something Since the elections there has been a greater emphasis on education.
  • to put/lay/place emphasis on something
  • to put particular/special/strong emphasis on something

📒 the extra force given to a word or phrase when spoken, especially in order to show that it is important; a way of writing a word (for example drawing a line below it) to show that it is important

  • emphasis on something You're placing the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
  • He put extra emphasis on the word ‘never’.
  • with emphasis ‘I can assure you,’ she added with emphasis, ‘the figures are correct.’
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