Example Sentences

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The fact one player has already complained of slight muscular soreness in recent days will have accentuated Glasner's concerns.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

Slowing growth reflects that effort to attain a more sustainable path to affluence, but the disruptions from the pandemic and a crackdown on excessive borrowing by property developers have accentuated underlying weaknesses.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

They have accentuated global economic turbulence from which India is relatively insulated by its huge domestic market.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

The downside risks to global growth have accentuated the risk of commodity price-driven inflation turning more generalised but despite the global headwinds, India's domestic macroeconomic conditions have continued to strengthen, its central bank said.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2022

To have spoken, though never so briefly of his hopes for proprietary rights, would have accentuated the girl's sensitive alarm.

From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander