underlines

present tense third-person singular of underline

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Recent Examples of underlines That the impact is so severe and so global underlines the fact that much of web hosting is centralized on Amazon. David Remnick, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 Dogears, underlines, and peonies marking each favorite page. Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025 But the cast had to always play it straight, underlines Macfadyen. Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025 By sending Rip off to sleep precisely at the moment America declares its independence, Irving underlines how radically life would be altered by the ensuing Revolution. John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 This example underlines the threat cyber attacks pose to the national power grid. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025 The confidence with which Woltemade dispatched the penalty — the technique was magnificent and execution perfect — underlines how strong a finisher the German is. Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 Even if parts of the individual storylines still come across as contrived or at least dramatically convenient, the ending reminds and underlines that these things, and things far worse, happened in Israel on October 7, 2023. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 La Galerie du 19M Tokyo, which opens to the public on Tuesday, underlines the importance of skilled labor in the face of AI, generational transition and debate about the value of luxury goods, as the house prepares for the first show by its new artistic director Matthieu Blazy. Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underlines
Verb
  • Rick also emphasizes cost avoidance as a discipline distinct from simple cost-cutting.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Paris with a display that emphasizes the poetic potential of materiality.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If the death of Cinna is a microcosm of the play, the other moment that reinforces the importance of due process in Julius Caesar is even more compressed, lasting a mere eight lines at the start of the fourth act.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The decision reinforces due process protections for immigrants and citizens alike, curbing warrantless arrests and asserting that even federal agents must answer to the same legal standards they are sworn to uphold.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Underlines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underlines. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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