Synonyms of foregrounding

foregrounding

verb

present participle of foreground

as in emphasizing

to indicate the importance of by centering attention on

repeatedly foregrounded his experience in international affairs in the course of his campaign for the presidency

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emphasizing
• highlighting
• stressing
• featuring
• accentuating
• identifying
• punctuating
• accenting
• pointing (up)
• illuminating
• focusing
• pressing
• promoting
• bearing down on
• playing up
• making much of
• spotlighting
• advertising
• publicizing
• pinpointing
• plugging
• boosting
• overplaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minimizing
• playing down
• understating
• de-emphasizing
• toning (down)
• discounting
• disparaging
• belittling
• underemphasizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foregrounding

Go-Sam outlines Australia’s attempt to create a home for Indigenous cultural materials and a National Resting Place for unprovenanced and low-provenanced ancestral remains, foregrounding the complexity of relying on architecture to reconcile past harms. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026

Sonically, Hazel Eyes is said to blend baroque pop, British folk, outlaw country and left-field R&B while foregrounding Smith’s signature vocal performances and intimate songwriting. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 June 2026

Their films’ starkness has potentially overwhelming power but also risks foregrounding flaws of judgment and finish. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026

Undoubtedly, these reconsiderations have been a largely positive exercise, foregrounding not only more equitable but more accurate and more engaging histories, and opening gallery and museum doors to previously excluded artists (even if many have suffered with the ups and downs of speculation). — Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Your mileage may vary with senseless AI text as a source of amusement, but there’s something to be said about foregrounding AI’s often absurd flaws and its potential for misuse, rather than dressing it up as some impartial arbiter of factuality. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026

On their first album under the moniker, the two noisemakers from Animal Collective delight in this combination, foregrounding campfire acoustics while sinister drones lurk around the corner. — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 12 May 2026

The tactic of foregrounding technology reflects the changing asset mix at Fox, which has made a number of M&A deals in the tech sector and last year entered subscription streaming with the launch of Fox One. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 May 2026

Burden internalized this pattern, of foregrounding the importance of the paterfamilias at the expense of real intimacy, of keeping up appearances despite the private pain. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026