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Plural of underscore

regular plural

The plural of underscore is underscores.

Forms of underscore

Singularunderscore /ˈʌn.dəˌskɔː(ɹ)/
Pluralunderscores
Countablecountable

Underscores in a sentence

  • The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.1986, Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative
  • Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
  • In the following viewpoint, Taylor Hawk explains intersectional feminism and underscores its importance.2017, Anne Cunningham, Reproductive Rights, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry intersectional
  • It might draw additional viewers, sure, but it also underscores the project’s voyeuristic shallowness.2015 June 21, Neil Genzlinger, “Review: ‘Requiem for the Dead’ on HBO Explores Gun Violence in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry voyeuristic
  • This research underscores an important message: personality is not static.2024 April 4, Jonas Enge, New You Post-Pandemic? How Global Crises Change Our Personal Traits, archived from the original on 20 May 2024. From the entry adapitates

Meaning of underscore

  1. noun A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.
  2. noun A piece of background music.
  3. verb To underline; to mark a line beneath text.

Full definition of underscore

Questions about the plural of underscore

What is the plural of underscore?
The plural of underscore is underscores.
Is underscore countable?
Underscore is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underscore (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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