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Open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them, while true open-source models allow full access to training data and code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

In sum, a hard math problem in the 19th century propelled the conceptual breakthroughs that underlie all the location services on our phones today.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

“The paintings are about the smoldering tensions that underlie the American dream, so I think it’s a particularly apt moment to bring them back into the public eye.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Talk to some folks in your family whom you trust to make sure you’re not overstepping any unspoken boundaries that underlie family relationships.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

That conviction underlies Christian accounts of dignity, equality, justice and human responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

By contrast, her father’s hypervigilance also underlies the narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

The byte or bit is a man-made invention, but the theory of digitized information that underlies it is a beautiful natural law.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In postproduction, Del Toro sometimes underlay Elordi’s screams with his own guttural noises or the roars of lions and gorillas, imagining a voice created by mismatched lungs and a throat from different people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

It is more breathable but is often installed where a highly-resistant underlay like bitumen felt is already present, stopping vapour from escaping.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

The turf was intended to function as an underlay for a plastic liner atop it as part of a construction project.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

There is a strong likelihood that what underlay the claims for the Grave Creek Stone were assumptions that impressive archaeological sites in North America could not possibly be the work of Native Americans.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A fundamental tension has always underlain the history of the Civil Rights movement, much as it did contemporaneous news coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Part of the reasoning in 2018 was site investigations found the ground underlain with peat deposits, as well as toxic and phytotoxic - meaning poisonous to plants - risk from shallow soils.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Approximately 91 per cent of these forests in the northern hemisphere are underlain by permafrost.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

The drill site in northwest Greenland was 138 miles from the coast and underlain by 4,560 feet of ice.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023

It had underlain the loudness and abuse of his words which she had overheard.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

Overall, Wong-Pan expects the result to generate positive sentiment, with underlying earnings about 3% stronger than his above-consensus forecast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

But the corporation has not apologized for the underlying accusation — because the documentary’s producers and the BBC’s lawyers believe it is true.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

"But when we look at the underlying data and the wider information available to us, we're confident we can see progress being made."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The mood in Trafalgar Square was sombre, with an underlying anger.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee