stress
noun
importance attached to a thing.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Mikaberidze stresses larger consequences of the purchase, from the extension of slavery to the dispossession of Indian nations whose lands had been sold out from under their feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Hidden from view inside the sleek outer nacelle are hundreds of little turbine blades that can shrug off enormous mechanical stresses and temperatures exceeding 1,500C.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
"My husband stresses that this is a time for unity, not for looking for people to blame," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Considered alongside an excellent lineup of contemporaries, “You Can See Everything” stresses that the genre isn’t about uncovering truths, but playing with our subjective relationship to them.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
