underscore
Example Sentences
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There are few scenic accouterments other than some fabulously eerie lighting, suspenseful sound effects and heavy-handed underscoring.
From Los Angeles Times
A deal would underscore broad investor interest in an important, though not flashy, corner of the healthcare business involving services and products to hospitals.
In contrast, the Pentagon’s new strategy document underscores the administration’s interest in opening more military-to-military communications with the Chinese military and reducing tensions to establish a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
It’s an example that underscores how our gruesome microbial adversaries are not, after all, very old.
“Renewed tariff threats from the U.S., which included the prospect of a 200% duty on French champagne, underscore how fragile the external environment remains,” said Jonas Feldhusen, an economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank.
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