undergird

Example Sentences

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Yet complacency, undergirded by the remarkable strength of the stock market, is precisely what U.S. leaders are showing.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Yet all are undergirded by peoples that had a pre-existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Day center activities are undergirded with building relationships because, as Towey explains, “relationship is what drives outcomes and impact.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024

It’s an idea that has undergirded Americans’ patriotism and inspired American domestic and foreign policies for decades.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates