understate
The Republicans were quick to highlight the Democrats' proposed tax increases in their campaign literature.共和党不失时机地在其竞选宣传材料中强调了民主党提议增税的情况。
He took a gun through baggage control to highlight the lax security.他携带一把枪通过了行李检查，以此引起大家对安全管理松懈这一问题的重视。
The moon highlighted the shadowy forms of the hills.月光凸显了山峦影影绰绰的轮廓。
The accident highlights the need for new safety measures.
The documentary highlighted systematic failings within the department.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stressing & emphasizing
accentuate
accentuation
all day longidiom
believe
deadass
drive/hammer something homeidiom
exactly
insistence
insistency
insistently
intensely
like blazesidiom
misemphasis
percent
ram
stress
themselves
underscore
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your arse offidiom
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your ass offidiom

Examples of highlighting

highlighting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Class analysis is useful in underlining domination and resistance and in highlighting inequality in social relations.
Highlighting the national character of problems and solutions rather than their regional political aspects was probably also a political strategy in itself.
Part 2 deals with chronic disease and disability, highlighting raised levels of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in most ethnic groups.
Further appendages include small volumes highlighting the entrances' locations.
That is to create a 'light construction' using heavy materials thus highlighting the true, joyful nature of lightness.
The process is also an aid to managing polypharmacy, highlighting poor nutrition and recognizing social problems that may interfere with treatment.
The comments have been useful in highlighting this fact and in clarifying potentially important avenues of research.
The discussion on feminism raises some interesting points highlighting tensions in examining motherist movements, but the debate is not really taken further.
Three layers of introductions - for the volume, for each section and for each text - provide necessary contextual information, while highlighting emerging themes.
Some people found the depiction of industrial activity distasteful, and assumed the murals were highlighting poor workers' conditions.
More information will follow shortly regarding conference themes, but an overarching focus will be one of showcasing solutions as opposed to highlighting problems.
The second activity aims at highlighting the role of humor as a source of meaning.
We then focus on flukes and snails, highlighting important biological traits with regard to population structure.
Chapter 7 (pp. 112-134) takes a second pass through these patterns, providing generalisations and highlighting the patterns that the author feels are phonologically important.
We prepared booklets highlighting the findings in accessible and attractive format and detailed research reports.
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