underlining

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The UN General Assembly on Wednesday will weigh a draft resolution underlining states' obligations to combat climate change, a long-awaited move that has been scaled back under pressure from major greenhouse gas emitters.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

And it ensnares Artie in a web of secrecy, underlining how “blind we humans are … moving through life as though through shadows.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Prospects for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries as well as for the steel and metal production sharply deteriorated, Wambach added, underlining the impact of the war on the industrial sector.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Thousands gathered in the streets of east London to welcome back the victorious Hammers, underlining how much the win meant to the club and their supporters.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

At first her questions were legitimate enough: Arithmetic, spelling, languages, geography, and the sort of purposeful confusion—about ringing numbers and underlining words—in which some psychologists place particular store.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey