substratum

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 addition to the rich biodiversity, they discovered that corals and other “community encrusters” were living on the pipe as a substratum.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2015

“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

Sponge larvae are able to swim; however, adults are non-motile and spend their life attached to a substratum.

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

Such substrata seem to be the most important factor limiting altitudinal distribution.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler