underlying

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So how much daily exercise and healthy eating people do alongside taking the medication, as well as support and advice offered, plus other underlying health issues.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

American corporations and entrepreneurs poised to engineer the industry’s underlying infrastructure must understand their legal obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"This will in turn make it easier to identify the underlying causes that make the information disappear," he said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

But the underlying fact — that there were two people on the plane — required no source inside the Pentagon to divine.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Conversely, Europe, in its rush toward political and economic unity today, will have to devote much thought to how to avoid dismantling the underlying reason behind its successes of the last five centuries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond