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underlie

[uhn-der-lahy] / ˌʌn dərˈlaɪ /


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True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

This process is thought to underlie decisions, thoughts, and memories, and studying it directly could help explain how the brain performs complex computations.

From Science Daily Dec. 29, 2025

They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

By contrast, her father’s hypervigilance also underlies the narrative.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

The new model is going up against OpenAI’s GPT-5, the latest AI which underlies its ChatGPT app.

From Barron's Nov. 19, 2025

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

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

There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

Maternal age effects may be controlled by epigenetic processes that change how genes are used rather than by mutations that alter the underlying DNA sequence.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Among their features is that, because the share price is driven by short-term market moves, the shares can sometimes sell for less than the underlying value of the investments.

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

Due to the state of the body, investigators were limited in their “ability to estimate the range of fire, other possible injuries involving skin, soft tissues and organs, and underlying natural disease,” the report said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Despite all the laughter, I could sense the underlying tensions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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