- present participle of underpin.
underpinning
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But he said it pointed to an urgent need for organisations and businesses to ensure the technology underpinning a whole range of applications we use and need daily was secure and up-to-date.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The investment boom has supercharged the economy by raising productivity, hoisting profits, driving record stock-market gains and underpinning consumer spending, especially among the wealthy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
With an unchanged neutral rating on the stock, the UBS analysts see the modest revenue growth underpinning Cochlear’s fiscal 2027 guidance as achievable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"The US equity sell-off reflected a reassessment of the economics underpinning the AI investment boom rather than a simple downgrade to end-demand," said National Australia Bank's Rodrigo Catril.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the recognition by Pythagoras and Plato that the Cosmos is knowable, that there is a mathematical underpinning to nature, they greatly advanced the cause of science.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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In this election, there’s emotional sentiment, psychological underpinnings, and consumer sentiment to account for.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
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
It could have been the greatest moment in the partnership of Lawrence and Oppenheimer; the unveiling of earthshaking experimental findings with solid theoretical underpinnings.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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