underpinning

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Economists have recently called for more transparency around how individual members of the RBA board vote on interest rates and the range of views underpinning those decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"But those are just simulations, not the real universe. Now we have a foundation which can let us know if some of the astrophysics underpinning those simulations is correct."

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

Supreme Court decision that annulled the tariffs underpinning that agreement.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 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