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  • verb Present participle of accentuate.

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Examples

  • In marketing, that's what we call accentuating your greatest weakness and turning it into a perceived strength. the $5M Obamapolis in Denver was for The People.

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • Aside from Edward Hopper and his use of light in accentuating loneliness, I know of no one else who has so poignantly captured that feeling as Deutch does in his bench people.

    Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010

  • Aside from Edward Hopper and his use of light in accentuating loneliness, I know of no one else who has so poignantly captured that feeling as Deutch does in his bench people.

    Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010

  • Aside from Edward Hopper and his use of light in accentuating loneliness, I know of no one else who has so poignantly captured that feeling as Deutch does in his bench people.

    Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010

  • Aside from Edward Hopper and his use of light in accentuating loneliness, I know of no one else who has so poignantly captured that feeling as Deutch does in his bench people.

    Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010

  • Aside from Edward Hopper and his use of light in accentuating loneliness, I know of no one else who has so poignantly captured that feeling as Deutch does in his bench people.

    Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010

  • 'I've hardly begun, sir,' George said, his stern expression accentuating his resemblance to James Stewart.

    A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

  • We love the idea of accentuating those colors by creating a neutral or white backdrop in the home.

    Ohdeedoh 2009

  • One mistake in the management -- that is, the accentuating of the third light, if you please, instead of the second -- will not only confuse the eye of the spectator, but may perhaps give him an entirely different impression from what was intended by the painter, just as the shifting of a chapter in a novel would confuse a reader; and this, if you please, without depending in any way upon either the drawing or the color of the accessories.

    Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Italy defender Fabio Grosso has admitted to 'accentuating' when he went down in the penalty area against Australia in the 2006 World Cup.

    tribalfootball.com Andrew Slevison 2010

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