Deny
Deny verb - To declare not to be true.
Emphasize
Emphasize verb - To indicate the importance of by centering attention on.
Common collocations
| connection | deny connection | emphasize connection |
| power | deny power | emphasize power |
| part | deny part | emphasize part |
| fear | deny fear | emphasize fear |
| Other words: relationship, fact, use, way, elements. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Towards the end of his (sane) life, he began to emphasize his Polish roots, to the point where he would sometimes deny that he was German at all and insist that he was entirely Polish.
Source: Foreign Culture Fetish - Both countries, while freely admitting that they are culturally Chinese (it's hard to deny when most Taiwanese speak Mandarin and most Hong Kongers speak Cantonese), they emphasize their preservation of the old, "true" Chinese culture in that respect.
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