Verb
UK standard spelling of emphasize.
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It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
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“I grew up in a Buddhist family,” Thao Nguyen Phan says of her childhood in Vietnam. “Even though the religion here seems to emphasise peace and mindfulness, the land is turbulent, there is always conflict, and the environmental impact on the river has been very dramatic.”
Newt Gingrich accused New York mayor Bill De Blasio of “small soy latte liberalism” in 2014 – emphasising that the only thing more girlish than drinking a big dairy milky coffee was drinking a small vegan milky coffee.
Verb
give extra weight to (a communication)
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Her gesture emphasized her words
to stress, single out as important
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Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet