Definitions
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- verb reduce the emphasis
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Examples
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Despite this, in recent years Williams has tended to de-emphasise the importance of challenging injustice.
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The PLO will most likely gain much from Abbas 'decision, as the Palestinian leader will likely de-emphasise the status of the president of the Palestinian Authority, while raising the profile of his position as the chairman of the PLO's executive committee.
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The PLO will most likely gain much from Abbas 'decision, as the Palestinian leader will likely de-emphasise the status of the president of the Palestinian Authority, while raising the profile of his position as the chairman of the PLO's executive committee.
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Eastern religions de-emphasise the importance of history and material reality considering them illusions to escape.
David Livingstone’s Vision Revisited: Christianity, Commerce and Civilization in the 21st Century 2007
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Unsurprisingly, elites tended to de-emphasise this part in later history….
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The paper also reflected an unwillingness to dispense entirely with the military option, however, proposing that the United States “de-emphasise, but not forswear, the possibility of military action against Iran.”
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The paper also reflected an unwillingness to dispense entirely with the military option, however, proposing that the United States “de-emphasise, but not forswear, the possibility of military action against Iran.”
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They de-emphasise prevention and profile highly, treatment.
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The letter detailed 1995 World Health Organisation (WHO) figures in an apparent attempt to de-emphasise the HIV/Aids crisis in the country.
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"All he said was that we must look at the picture in totality, he did not say we must de-emphasise something and shift funds from something else," she said.
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