underscore
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Labor advocates who have studied pesticide regulation say the oversight gaps and failures to impose stiffer fines underscore the need for more vigilant enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Today's multi-location and international arrests underscore the FBI's continued commitment to bringing all participants in this plot to justice," FBI special agent Brett Skiles said on X.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Yet the rules underscore how opaque, and even confusing, the traditional car-buying experience can be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The findings also underscore how much remains to be learned about biodiversity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
To underscore her authority it is likely that Cleopatra arranged a stop at Memphis—the former capital where the pharaohs of ages past resided.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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"This scientific breakthrough underscores the power of research to redefine what we thought was possible and advance new approaches to cancer treatment," said Sreekala Bajwa, dean of the agricultural college.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Historically, underscores hasn’t written much about her personal life, opting for conceptual work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
But experts said ProPublica’s data analysis, along with stories about delays in ectopic care, underscores the need to find out what is driving the deaths.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
That divergence underscores where the market is tightest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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But as Trump showed Xi around the National Archives in Washington -- home to the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution -- it underscored that the summit was more about spectacle than substance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
More recent cases have underscored just how complicated the situation can become.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
In a press release announcing the song in 2007, Hakim underscored his desire to try something new, sonically speaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
In recent days, rising long-term government borrowing costs—and a sudden reversal Wednesday after the Treasury announced plans to buy back more long-term debt—have underscored the stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The fact that these are two separate questions needs to be underscored right away.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The review's authors raised concerns about possible metabolic effects, underscoring that questions about appetite and glucose regulation are distinct from the original claim about DNA damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Just weeks after Moderna’s positive news, rival BioNTech suffered a setback in a mid-stage colorectal cancer vaccine trial, underscoring the risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jacobs’ attorneys released a statement underscoring that the NFL is reviewing his case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Microsoft’s stock just sealed its longest stretch of gains in 10 months, underscoring how much it’s come back into favor as the software sector proves it hasn’t been left for dead in the artificial-intelligence era.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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