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topicalize

DEFINITIONS OF: topicalize

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v emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence

“Speakers topicalize more often than they realize”
“The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'”
Type of:
accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress
to stress, single out as important
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