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Definitions for highlighting
high·light·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. highlight, highlightingnoun

    an area of lightness in a picture

Wiktionary

  1. highlightingnoun

    An area of the skin or hair containing highlights.

  2. highlightingadjective

    Causing emphasis, drawing attention; revealing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of highlighting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of highlighting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of highlighting in a Sentence

  1. Your Perfect Mexican Daughter:

    And when you look back at her history, she did things her way and enjoyed her own process, so I’ve just been highlighting a few things here and there. It really... it puts me to sleep. It’s a win-win.

  2. Christopher Cassidy:

    The PSA really helps our efforts in terms of the message that The PSA sends about unity, and The PSA's what our project is about. We're on a mission to inspire America by highlighting something that's universally supported. The Medal of Honor -- the values of courage, sacrifice, patriotism, that's something that represents our nation, and I think having all three of those former presidents record that message sends that message very clearly.

  3. Hans Mikkelsen:

    Recall that - unlike the credit market - the equity market well into 2008 was very complacent about the subprime crisis that led to a full blown financial crisis, while we are not predicting another financial crisis, it is important to keep highlighting to investors across asset classes that conditions in the high grade credit market are currently very unusual.

  4. Shannon Symonds:

    I'm glad that The Nintendo Play Station is highlighting the need for video game preservation, and obviously I wish Terry Diebold and his son'd been able to have The Nintendo Play Station in the museum's collection, but Terry Diebold and his son've never had the goal of getting every single piece of gaming history. Not only would it be prohibitive in terms of money and space, it's also not necessary to tell the history of video games.

  5. Michael Ryan:

    Certainly I don't believe we are going to see an explosive transmission of Ebola just because of this incident, what I am highlighting is the fact that we are so close to finishing, that if we lose this opportunity we are going to be dealing with that reality for months to come.

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