de-emphasis

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Noun
  • But regulatory frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (CAIA) emphasize data minimization, retention limits and individual privacy rights.
    Asaf Kochan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In jurisdictions like the EU, mishandling personal information may violate provisions of the bloc’s strict data privacy law, GDPR, which includes principles like data minimization, informed consent, and the right to be forgotten.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cuomo told reporters that Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had made Jewish people afraid to leave their homes.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Although there seems to be a lot of fan criticism towards Aleister Black and Zelina Vega's debut entrance as a couple on SmackDown, there are also fans who appeared to be in favor of the look.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Absent due process, there’s no pause to decide whether this person should be condemned or if the reason given for condemnation is legitimate.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And when families lead with compassion instead of condemnation, recovery happens faster and lasts longer.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Far from being simply a denunciation of marginalization, the song becomes a sincere embrace of vulnerable childhoods, highlighting the pain of those who grow up in poverty, neglect, and, often, are forced into crime as a means of survival.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Cinema sometimes has to know how to give in to a cause, but another thing entirely is to impoverish cinema by attributing to documentary cinema a mere and strict role of denunciation.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To their credit, the Young Republicans organization issued a strong denouncement of the comments, although I was horrified by reading the online responses to it.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The quiet denouncement of Bob’s martyrdom complex points to people of color’s self-sufficiency.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to initiating the censure process, the City Council called for a special meeting, with Barbadillo, Lam and Chua in favor.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In doing so, the palace must weigh distancing itself from Andrew with ensuring the blowback from any further censure does not do even more damage to an institution that requires public buy-in.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
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“De-emphasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de-emphasis. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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