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underscored

verb as in underline, emphasize

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This week two news items underscored the duplicitousness of the Israeli government.

The contrast on policy keeps being underscored by tragedies like Lone Star College.

It also underscored the power of the Internet to spread content and prompt debate.

This fact was underscored by the failure of the recent climate talks in Doha to achieve any substantive deal.

But the backlash against the pope underscored how open the pontiff is to public scorn and just how nasty cyberbullies can be.

A paper of twenty pages would come in, with an underscored request to please read through, carefully.

And those words had been written eleven days ago; and she had underscored the word "earliest" three times.

But now, in the light of these underscored lines, the worn hands no longer looked pathetic.

Her letter was a long one, evidently written in great agitation and with words blotted and underscored.

I have underscored it for you; you shall look at it; you shall know that I, Mr. Jackson, understand and mean it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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