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
The larva settles on a suitable substratum and develops into a sessile polyp.
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
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
Hughes’s book begins with the prehistoric substrata, delving with curiously gripping detail into layers of settlement archaeologists have only recently unearthed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 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
As just indicated, the plasmodia follow moisture, creep from one moist substance to another, especially follow nutritive substrata.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
