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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

“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

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

A similar approach underlies “pulp painting,” in which artists use pigmented rag to work wet-into-wet as if they were using more traditional media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

That historical constraint helped researchers improve their measurement of the half-life governing the decay of potassium-40 into argon-40, the process that underlies argon-argon dating.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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

This is the conception of life which underlies the Norse religion, as somber a conception as the mind of man has ever given birth to.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

The music of the pearl was triumphant in Kino’s head, and the quiet melody of the family underlay it, and they wove themselves into the soft padding of sandaled feet in the dust.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

But one thing comforts me: a bit of madness has underlain every great work until that work was completed and had compassed its end.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

It also raised its guidance for underlying earnings before interest and taxes to between $8 billion and $8.5 billion, from $4.5 billion to $6.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The underlying fundamentals of strong AI spending and demand are still intact, he said, and “when a stock price moves in opposite direction of the fundamentals, those typically become very good setups.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

If correct, this would mean that the basic organization underlying the brain's crossed connections began developing more than half a billion years before modern humans appeared.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Chronic diastolic congestive heart failure was an underlying cause, and acute renal failure was also listed as a significant contributing condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Although she worked a full-time job while in custody, most of her income went to repay the diversion program, not the underlying fine that put her in custody in the first place.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander