"underscore a need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to emphasize that something is important or essential. For example, "Our latest report underscores a need for increased investment in renewable energy sources."
The findings underscore a need for more workplace support when employees care for the elderly, Ms. Timmermann said.
While the researchers cannot estimate the precise increase in cancer risk, she said, the findings underscore a need for government to take steps to protect children.
In a statement, John Simpson, privacy project director for Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog, said Google's results underscore a need for human drivers to be behind the wheel of self-driving cars.
These startling statistics clearly underscore a need to understand the basic molecular and cellular processes underlying these disabling disorders.
The increased funding and absent rise of new drugs in all therapeutic areas adds to the growing concerns about the productivity of biomedical research [2], [6], [53], [54] and underscore a need to examine non-economic factors in the search for new treatments.
The foregoing observations underscore a need to study social support further in other cancer settings.
More important, his presentation underscored a need for change.
But, the officials said, the case underscored a need for pre-emptive terrorism prosecutions.
Several Democrats have seized on the news of the bank's loss, saying the case underscores a need to enforce a strict Volcker Rule.
They said the survey underscored a need for uniform state standards about how -- and how much -- charity care should be spent at a time when concerns about fair access to medical care are growing locally and around the nation.
Many vaccine candidates have been proposed, but the high cost of clinical testing has underscored a need for prioritization, and led to persistent calls for development of in vitro functional tests correlated with immune protection in humans.
