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Used this way, AI could strengthen rather than displace the judgment and self-belief that underlie agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

"A similar mechanism could underlie individual differences in responses to other rewarding stimuli," says author and neuroscientist Josep Marco-Pallarés of the University of Barcelona.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2026

They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

At some central banks, policymakers agree to a path for interest rates that underlies the forecast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

That underlies the name of a new exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento, “Help Wanted/Leave Now!” about the “revolving door” of programs and practices that have alternately enticed and expelled workers, legal and undocumented.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

These help to dampen the chronic, low-grade inflammation that quietly underlies heart disease, diabetes and many cancers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

This question underlies Naomi Kanakia’s snappily titled “What’s So Great About the Great Books?” a compelling if excessively cautious defense of classic literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

However, Sidony says her flooring was never inspected, and has shown the BBC her end of tenancy agreement which instructed her to remove carpets, underlay, gripper rods and laminate flooring.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024

California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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 lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

The region is underlain by quartz veins, rich in ore.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

This plain—the Alföld, as it is called—comprises an area of 37,400 square miles, composed chiefly of rich black soil underlain by water-worn gravel—a significant fact for geologists.

From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse

Exchange hacks have historically only had a short-term impact on bitcoin prices, driven by traders’ psychological reactions rather than any deterioration in bitcoin’s underlying fundamentals, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Their underlying claim isn’t that modern people have lost their sense of smell, but that we have grown less able to interpret what it tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The company reported an underlying replacement-cost profit–a similar metric to the net income that U.S. oil companies report–of $8.46 billion for the third quarter of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

In mathematics and physics, self-similar solutions describe patterns that retain their underlying structure when viewed at different scales.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

They'd put a good face on it, but one could always detect an underlying sense of defeat.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris