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underscore

[uhn-der-skawr, -skohr, uhn-der-skawr, -skohr, uhn-der-skawr, -skohr] / ˈʌn dərˌskɔr, -ˌskoʊr, ˌʌn dərˈskɔr, -ˈskoʊr, ˈʌn dərˌskɔr, -ˌskoʊr /


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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

The comments underscore how close a call the Sept. 15-16 meeting has become.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

The UN's refugee agency continues to underscore the humanitarian principle that any return should be "voluntary, safe and dignified".

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Every now and then Ted pops in to watch with me, pausing the video to underscore a particularly dramatic moment: “See how she’s working around the vase? That’s an accident waiting to happen. ”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

The effort underscores the challenge of fully disabling the country’s missile program.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 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

For some, the focus on trans rights is a reason to step back from Pride; for others, it underscores why events like Sparkle matter.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

In addition to the ready perspective it offers on relative risk, the safety index underscores the obvious fact that every activity carries some risk.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Ahead of the meeting, rhetoric from Washington and Beijing has underscored only deepening acrimony and distrust over their rush to dominate the technological frontier.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Rubio also underscored commercial ties, saying Google, Palantir, and SpaceX were "establishing operations and digital infrastructure in Ecuador."

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Lavallee said she couldn’t comment directly on the matter and instead underscored Voya’s “robust” investor engagement program, explaining, “We constantly run the company as though we are looking at it from an outside-in perspective.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 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

This underscored Bush’s esteem for the breadth of Lawrence’s scientific knowledge and his emollient managerial technique.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Americans are abandoning the belief that smarts and effort are the best ways to get ahead in life, according to new research, underscoring the pessimism many people have about their chances at financial success.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 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

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

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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