underbuilding

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Yet the factors undergirding the market’s comeback are both relatively straightforward and well-grounded in fundamentals, according to Société Générale strategist Manish Kabra.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The premise undergirding the campaign was that lazy, childish men should be the leaders of society, not just despite but because they won't do the work to earn it.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2024

The work to produce and analyze the synthetic droplets is the result of a combination of deeply integrated interdisciplinarity and the human factors undergirding scientific work.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

Ellen Bernstein, a river guide turned rabbi who blazed a spiritual trail in the environmental movement by undergirding it with the Hebrew Bible’s veneration of nature, died on Feb. 27 in Philadelphia.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

The fireplace, the beams undergirding the loft, the tools dangling off nails on the walls.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead