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The U.S. and China have taken different approaches in the AI models that underlie chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

In sum, a hard math problem in the 19th century propelled the conceptual breakthroughs that underlie all the location services on our phones today.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

“The paintings are about the smoldering tensions that underlie the American dream, so I think it’s a particularly apt moment to bring them back into the public eye.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Talk to some folks in your family whom you trust to make sure you’re not overstepping any unspoken boundaries that underlie family relationships.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

It also required him understanding that what underlies the struggles between millennials and their parents is how shockingly alike they are despite being constantly annoyed by each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

These help to dampen the chronic, low-grade inflammation that quietly underlies heart disease, diabetes and many cancers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

This question underlies Naomi Kanakia’s snappily titled “What’s So Great About the Great Books?” a compelling if excessively cautious defense of classic literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In postproduction, Del Toro sometimes underlay Elordi’s screams with his own guttural noises or the roars of lions and gorillas, imagining a voice created by mismatched lungs and a throat from different people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

It is more breathable but is often installed where a highly-resistant underlay like bitumen felt is already present, stopping vapour from escaping.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

The turf was intended to function as an underlay for a plastic liner atop it as part of a construction project.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

I just wanted us to be talking and joking comfortably, like we were on the couch together back home, but some tension underlay everything.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

A fundamental tension has always underlain the history of the Civil Rights movement, much as it did contemporaneous news coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

The drill site in northwest Greenland was 138 miles from the coast and underlain by 4,560 feet of ice.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023

The region is underlain by quartz veins, rich in ore.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

The tenderness which has underlain even John's remonstrances culminates in his closing words.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

The dispute was over the new pay and grading structure designed to deal with the underlying issues which led to thousands of equal pay claims from female workers past and present.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Derating happens when the share price of a company falls, even as underlying earnings are holding up, resulting in a lower price-to-earnings multiple.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

But the underlying questions about the impacts of clearfelling, and how they compared to less intensive forestry options, remained unresolved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

There is some truth to so-called fundamental analysis, which looks to the economic factors underlying a stock’s value.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos