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The same ship is wrecked by stress (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emphasis

'stress' is the definition.
(I know that stress can be written as emphasis)

'the same ship is wrecked' is the wordplay.
'is wrecked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'same'+'ship'='sameship'
'sameship' with letters rearranged gives 'EMPHASIS'.

'by' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for emphasis that I've seen before include "Intensity of expression" , "Stress given to a word" , "Accentutation" , "Stress - misshape (anag)" , "Force" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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