Definition of "emphasize" []

• To give emphasis to; stress. (verb-transitive)

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• "The only reason to note this is to again emphasize that Indians were a special case created by the peculiar history of the United States."
• "And that the hard-left pinko (who's, as we again need to emphasize, is the sitting Senator from Wyoming, of all places) would use outing a guy out of a closet as a threat."
• "Immediately following the excerpt that you chose to emphasize is this: the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed and ordered (e.g. the Commissar Order) war crimes of their own, particularly during the invasion of Poland in 1939 [5] and later in the war against the Soviet Union."