emphasize
verb (used with object)
are emphasizing
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present progressiveof emphasize.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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At the same time, some academics are emphasizing the need for students to hone AI skills to improve efficiency, deepen expertise, and meet the demands of a modern workforce.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Rather than rolling out broad stimulus, authorities are emphasizing precision measures — financing guarantees, interest subsidies and incentives aimed at specific categories such as automobiles, appliances and services.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
British authorities, tight-lipped as usual, are emphasizing that they don’t think it’s terror-related.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Tech companies, including OpenAI, are emphasizing AI’s benefits to California’s economy and expanding partnerships with schools so more students have access to their AI tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Furthermore, the details both of Indian life and of Indian belief are so chosen and sifted and beautified as to be most misleading, if we are emphasizing that side of the poem.
From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock
