as in emphasizes
to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely
she was always dwelling on past insults and snubs, both real and imagined
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Reichardt emphasizes the extremity of the action with a strikingly novel form of cinematic narrative that, in a more ordinary drama, might feel like a facile evasion.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025 -
Eno emphasizes that in fact there was no goal at all, which might be why the process generated such rich results.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Dwells (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dwells%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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