Highlighting search results when using Laravel Scout

In my application, I am using Laravel Scout with the TNTSearch Driver to create a search bar in my site navigation, which is connected to a search method.

The search method searches a bunch of different models and returns what it finds to a view.

Here is the method:

/**
 * Perform a search given what the user entered into the search box.
 * Uses Laravel Scout to do initial search but because the use of WHERE is limited,
 * we use a filter function instead, on each collection.
 *
 * @param Request $request
 * @return void
 */
public function search(Request $request)
{
    // The search string entered
    $search = $request->get('q');

    // Laravel Scout search() method
    $users = User::search($search)->get();
    $articles = Article::search($search)->get();
    $events = Event::search($search)->get();
    $files = FileMetaData::search($search)->get();

    // The date and time as of right now
    $today = Carbon::now();

    /**
     * Below are the filters in place for each model search
     * 1. News articles must be open
     * 2. \Events are split into open and closed
     */
    $articles = $articles->filter(function ($articles) {
        return $articles->published === 'published';
    });

    $upcomingEvents = $events->filter(function ($events) use ($today) {
        return $events->startDate->gt($today);
    });

    $pastEvents = $events->filter(function ($events) use ($today) {
        return $events->startDate->lt($today);
    });

    $userCount = count($users);
    $articleCount = count($articles);
    $eventCount = count($events);
    $upcomingEventCount = count($upcomingEvents);
    $pastEventCount = count($pastEvents);
    $fileCount = count($files);

    return view('pages.search.index', compact('search', 'users', 'articles', 'upcomingEvents', 'pastEvents', 'userCount', 'articleCount', 'upcomingEventCount', 'pastEventCount', 'files', 'fileCount'));
}

As you can see, I'm using Scout's search() function to search each model and then put some additional constraints on the results, before returning them to my view.

The view itself

I would like the highlighted text at the top to also highlight where appropriate with the search results themselves but I can't seem to find anything in the documentation about using the TNT Highlighter class with Laravel.

Trawling through Laracasts forums, I found this: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/algolia-highlighting-in-laravel-53?page=1

Point of interest

<?php

use TeamTNT\TNTSearch\TNTSearch;

$articles = Article::search($searchString)->get();
$tnt = new TNTSearch;

$articles = $articles->map(function($article) use ($searchString, $tnt) {
    $article->title = $tnt->highlight($title, $searchString, 'em'),
});

In my case would I need this snippet for each result set?

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