emphasise
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emphasise (third-person singular simple present emphasises, present participle emphasising, simple past and past participle emphasised)
- UK standard spelling of emphasize.
- 2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
- It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
- 2022 February 28, Rosanna McLaughlin, “Thao Nguyen Phan: ‘There’s beauty and optimism in these tragic stories’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 April 2022:
- “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.”
- 2025 September 4, Sam Wolfson, quoting Newt Gingrich, “Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 September 2025:
- 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.