underlie

Example Sentences

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The underlying concern: AI could soon upend the business models for companies from wealth management to trucking.

From The Wall Street Journal

For its studio and HBO Max streaming businesses this year, the company saw strong gains in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a widely followed measure of underlying profitability.

From MarketWatch

I dismissed these misguided reactions, and the silly underlying implication that any criticism of a cleric regime puts all Muslims in an unflattering light.

From The Wall Street Journal

The market reaction, in turn, seems to reveal more about investor sentiment than it does about Nvidia’s underlying performance.

From Barron's

The fund, unlike the underlying index, has to pay management fees and other expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal