Definition of "foregrounded" [foregrounded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of foreground. (verb)

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• "Or should I say that they are being "foregrounded" in a rather unpleasant way."
• "The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David."
• "This function is foregrounded in Being Human, in which poetry in translation, a central pillar of each of the books, is given still greater prominence several of the poems that appear in translation here are being published in English for the first time."