as in emphasizes
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
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Recent Examples of foregrounds
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Boggs’s biography, which foregrounds Baldwin’s deepest love relationships, is a moving and eloquent rejoinder to the decline narrative.
—Megan Marshall
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
Safdie’s presentation of these comments foregrounds Mark’s understanding of what’s profound, and profoundly disturbing, about mixed martial arts, and perhaps all martial arts—the channelling and professionalizing of brutality.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Boggs’s biography, which foregrounds Baldwin’s deepest love relationships, is a moving and eloquent rejoinder to the decline narrative.
—Megan Marshall
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foregrounds
Verb
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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
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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
Verb
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Gatlin’s indictment highlights her approving more than $2 million in fraudulent Foundation payments to an Atlanta businessman, Yergan Jones, who owns an audiovisual company that provided no services to the nonprofit or Jackson Health System.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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The development also highlights the model’s growing popularity in the plug-in hybrid segment and its role in strengthening BYD’s position in China’s competitive new energy vehicle market.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Oct. 2025
Verb
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So the company stresses that in their process.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Voskuhl stresses that women need to be screened for contraindications such as breast cancer, clotting disorders or cardiovascular disease.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The lineup of fly fishing films features breathtaking locations, great catches and the stories behind them.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
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The system also features NVLink-C2C interconnect technology, which offers five times the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Foregrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregrounds. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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