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foregrounding

foregrounding is the present participle and gerund of foreground.

Meaning of foreground

Verb

foreground (third-person singular simple present foregrounds, present participle foregrounding, simple past and past participle foregrounded)

  1. To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
    • Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020
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Questions about foregrounding

What is foregrounding the present participle and gerund of?
Foregrounding is the present participle and gerund of foreground.

Words near foregrounding in the dictionary

  1. foreground
  2. foregroundable
  3. foregrounded
  4. foregrounder
  5. foregrounders
  6. foregrounding
  7. foregrounds
  8. foregroup
  9. foregroups
  10. foreguard
  11. foreguards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foregrounding (page history and authors); foreground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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