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Payne said the Brampton factory represents an important moment for Canada, because it will underscore whether business leaders, workers and government officials are willing to save the country’s auto sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The findings also underscore the risks of assigning identities to extinct animals primarily from their physical appearance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
“These findings underscore the difficulty of making an initial enrollment decision in Medicare,” the study said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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
What activities could you do with them to underscore the idea of the soundscape?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
The magic of metamorphosis in butterflies underscores our capacity for change, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Even so, the research provides another glimpse into changes that may occur long before Alzheimer's becomes clinically visible and underscores the value of basic research aimed at understanding and, eventually, anticipating the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 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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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
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
The heightened nervousness was underscored by security guards blocking photographers and videojournalists from entering the hospital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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
As a result, they were making startling discoveries that only underscored the constraints faced by their American colleagues.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
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
The full S&P 500’s forward P/E has declined to 20 from 22.2 at the end of 2025, underscoring how this bull market has been driven by profit increases.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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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