underpinning
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Yet, the technology underpinning autonomous warfare risks outpacing the Russian and Ukrainian frameworks for maintaining some degree of human control over weapons.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
The AI product space is increasingly competitive, underpinning demand for computing power and AI infrastructure, the strategists add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It views data centres as underpinning public services and crucial to attract investment and allow Britain to compete in the global economy.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
For Farber, the "overarching ecosystem" in Munich and surrounding Bavaria state is underpinning the growth of defence startups.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Warsh hasn’t given the intellectual underpinnings for his “swerve” away from how Fed chairs over the past two decades have communicated, Tetlow noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yet there had to have been underpinnings to keep the group producing and its audience coming back for more on record and on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” takes the series’ thematic underpinnings — what parenting looks like between a masked human loner and an otherworldly toddler — and deepens them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
He charms the staff with his knowledge of these obscure machines – pointing out the bellows that power a church organ, and the pneumatic underpinnings of a piano roll player.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
I was attracted to the scientific underpinnings of dialectical materialism, for I am always inclined to trust what I can verify.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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