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Hyphenatable material enclosed in group braces

I have text that I need to repeat quite a few times: \newcommand{\repeatme}{text to repeat that is somewhat long and verbose} I'd like to underline this text and have it not cause hbox overflow ...
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How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?

I know there exists the \phantom command, but does it work on large blocks of text (containing several paragraphs or even several pages)? What I want is to have some commands, call them \hide and ...
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Custom switches (such as for underlining)

Some packages (ntheorem for example) take only text switches as arguments that can be used in the form {\switch text}, for example \bfseries. If I now want to have a suitable command for underlining, ...