undergird

Ms. Velez’s Patti exudes a warmth undergirded by a fierce desire to protect her son, and a pleading hope to persuade Nelson that retrenchment is the only path forward.

That’s the principle undergirding the AI industry’s vast expenditures on data centers and high-performance chips.

Whatever progress has been made, there is still one fundamental reality that undergirds American involvement in the peace process in the days ahead.

Still, it may as well be implied by the character’s disaffected approach to the tectonic event that undergirds Victor’s dryly funny, intimate debut.

It undergirds authoritarianism, the search for perfectionism, the illusion of control.