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- verb Present participle of
foreground .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
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Examples
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The major achievements of O'Quinn's essay lie in foregrounding abolition and the slave trade as critical sites for the deployment of sexuality during the
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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Despite these follies, the kind of foregrounding that he has attempted in course of the present series of essays is immensely praiseworthy.
Richard Carlson with a pinch of salt Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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It is you who are "foregrounding" race and religion.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Despite these follies, the kind of foregrounding that he has attempted in course of the present series of essays is immensely praiseworthy.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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I think you deserve a bit of congratulations for "foregrounding" the "person who can't go to gig sells his ticket at cost price to best mate" angle ... you may well have saved us all well some of us anyway, at least those with slightly flawed babysitting arrangements quite a lot of court fees, fines etc.
Burnham wants to criminalise football fans who sell their spare ticket to a mate 2008
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It is the sort of thing most readily identified as a "novel of ideas," although this novel may be the most insistent on foregrounding the "ideas" themselves as its central interest.
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It is the sort of thing most readily identified as a "novel of ideas," although this novel may be the most insistent on foregrounding the "ideas" themselves as its central interest.
The New Equivocation 2010
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Although Virginia Woolf's version of "psychological realism" needs to be taken as a special case -- it's so pure an attempt to stay within the flow of her character's stream of thought -- I would argue that most expository passages in modern fiction do in fact take place as part of the "foregrounding of psychology."
Genre Fiction 2010
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I feel sad that these divides exist, but I want to continue foregrounding them and discussing them.
Fem 2.0 tweetchat 2009
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It is the sort of thing most readily identified as a "novel of ideas," although this novel may be the most insistent on foregrounding the "ideas" themselves as its central interest.
May 2010 2010
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