underscore
verb (used with object)
to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis.
was underscoring
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past progressiveof underscore.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His presentation was serendipitously timed, coming the same week as a local Bonfire of the Vanities-esque scandal was underscoring the speculator class's privilege.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2010
Garthoff was underscoring that the treaty covered all systems -- both those systems that were "currently" in use as well as any future ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could he reply to that look of cruel irony, to the grimace with which the noble lord was underscoring his words?
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
