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Verb: topicalize
  1. 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'"
    - topicalise [Brit]

Derived forms: topicalized

See also: topicalization

Type of: accent, accentuate, emphasise [Brit], emphasize, punctuate, stress

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