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What does de-emphasize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove or reduce the emphasis from something; to make something less important; to play down.
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But we can de-emphasize their importance as primary instruments of justice while we place the highest priority on social and economic justice.
Billings, however, argues that she represents the road to progress because she would de-emphasize the test, called the Washington Assessment of Student Learning.
But Flint Hill was sold in 1990, and the new owners decided to de-emphasize basketball.
Many Americans move to places that de-emphasize the particularities of their local community.
American said it changed its training in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder.
They stress subjects and particular topics that they expect to be on the tests and de-emphasize others.

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