underscores

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And when that team succeeds, as the U.S. has this summer, it not only underscores the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, but it offers a lesson for today as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2026

The research also underscores the importance of looking beyond traditional laboratory animals.

From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026

The pattern underscores one of the most prominent, if undersung, media “biases”—the bias in favor of pushing a story forward.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

Her singing, fallible yet strong, underscores the music’s essential humanity, and the shape of each verse is as unique as the grain of a given piece of wood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

In that sense, the Terman study underscores the argument Annette Lareau makes, that what your parents do for a living, and the assumptions that accompany the class your parents belong to, matter.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell