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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

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

"By uncovering how these microscopic regulators cooperate," Tolić says, "we are not only deepening our understanding of biology but also moving closer to correcting the failures that underlie disease."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025

It was there he learned the Socratic method of inquiry by oral combat that would underlie both his remarkable achievements and the harsh judgments that would precipitate his fall from grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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

Keeping such power a safe distance from Israeli civilians underlies the thinking, and the subsequent action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

"These results reveal that a shared genetic programme conserved throughout evolution underlies the specialisation of macrophages across tissues," adds Domien Vanneste, first author of the scientific article.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026

It is this that underlies his decision to declare war on ‘false rumour and the opinions of some, based on unreliable and untrustworthy foundations’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

However, Sidony says her flooring was never inspected, and has shown the BBC her end of tenancy agreement which instructed her to remove carpets, underlay, gripper rods and laminate flooring.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 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

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Part of the reasoning in 2018 was site investigations found the ground underlain with peat deposits, as well as toxic and phytotoxic - meaning poisonous to plants - risk from shallow soils.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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 whole region is underlain by nearly horizontal and undisturbed rocks of the Palaeozoic from the Devonian downward.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

Although the phenomenon is common throughout the animal kingdom, scientists are still working to understand the biological processes underlying it and why it has persisted over evolutionary history.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

He said that a policymaker who saw underlying inflation accelerating would lean toward tightening but didn’t offer a view on which way he thought it was moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Like O’Regan, Fetherstonhaugh said the recent weakness in memory and storage names is more due to “a macro-driven pullback rather than deterioration in the underlying memory story.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

"It has formed the underlying ecosystem that enables many people to build their developments on top of Unitree," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The intuition underlying moral-uplift strategies is fundamentally sound: our communities will never thrive if we fail to respect ourselves and one another.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander