Collocations for "foreground"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "foreground" in context.
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foreground
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- the foreground of the [picture, photo, painting]
- the [picture's] foreground
- leave the foreground [blurry, in focus]
- the foreground is [blurry]
- a [blurred, cluttered] foreground
- the subject matter in the foreground
- the foreground's subject matter
- foreground and background
- can see [it] in the foreground
- the foreground is [in, out of] focus
- [plants, birds] in the foreground
- has occupied the political foreground (recently)
- the issue has been brought to the foreground