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Cook’s years as CEO of Apple underscore how important leadership is for investors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to analysts, Cairo will use the summit to underscore its strategic autonomy, showing it can leverage its close ties with both Washington and Beijing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Congressional investigations underscore the value of foreign-funding transparency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The company sought to underscore the seriousness of the crime in its social media post.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He wanted to underscore the waste and immorality of the standard American diet.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
"Our study thus underscores the transformative role of breath-based interventions. The interplay between breathing and cardiac dynamics makes the brain more receptive to rewards," explains lead author Wenhao Huang, interpreting the results.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Kalshi episode underscores the growing compliance burden facing prediction markets as they attract more users and move closer to mainstream products.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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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Policymakers also underscored the need to stay vigilant to the potential spillover of the semiconductor boom into inflation via the wealth effect as wages go up and consumers spend more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In an opinion article published ahead of his arrival, Rubio underscored the scale of the challenge facing Ecuador's leader.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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
But the coordinated attacks also underscored the vulnerability of the United States’ water facilities, prompting some obvious questions as to what the federal government has been doing, is presently doing, and perhaps should be doing.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Ten . . . twenty . . . thirty . . .” The children were excellent counters, which merely underscored how very many pieces of correspondence were already on hand.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
California’s latest victim of a deadly rattlesnake bite has emerged, and it’s not a human but a black jaguar living in a Central Valley sanctuary, underscoring the dangers of rattlesnake poisonings this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The company's data centre division alone generated $89bn last quarter, up 117% from a year ago, underscoring just how much of the industry now depends on Nvidia's hardware.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But we were reaffirming and underscoring those original concerns, many of which had gone by the wayside.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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