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topicalize

to·pi·ca·lize

uncommon

verb

1.

emphasize by putting have 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”
  • “'”

Origin

From topical + -ize.

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