substratum
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The message and the relentless pursuit of perfection it implored served as the substratum of Eric Musselman’s life.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
In a Morlockian twist, the creatures are not extraterrestrials, but intra: Their mole car has drilled up to the surface from their hive deep in the Earth’s substratum.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2016
“What saves them from being mere inflated TV dramas is a substratum of complex overtones and compassions,” Jerry Tallmer wrote in The New York Post.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015
These polyps show limited mobility along the substratum and, like scyphozoans, may bud to form more polyps to colonize a habitat.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
This substrata of despondency adds ballast to a novel that sometimes seems to want to drift off, like a hot-air balloon, into an ionospheric layer of pure twinkle and whimsy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2019
As if building a layer cake, he and his crew applied the substrata, the flashing, the shingles, the roll roofing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
Carrie Coon in this scene is a tour-de-force, telling a story that’s either an intensely spiritual pilgrimage to the substrata of existence or a lie that gets her to sleep at night.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2017
Even where the argillaceous substrata are hard at first, they soon become softened and reduced to a plastic state when exposed to the contact of air and water in the floor of a mine.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
