underlying

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Ueda’s absence is unlikely to significantly change the bank’s rate decision, as policymakers, including the governor himself, have voiced growing concerns that higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict will accelerate underlying inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Although modern AI systems can produce impressive language and reasoning capabilities, their underlying mechanisms differ from the attention processes found in biological brains.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Whether the plumber directly caused the problem, failed to identify an underlying issue, or repaired one faulty component only for another to reveal itself, the result is the same: the cistern does not function properly.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

That is cheap for a company expected by analysts to increase its underlying trading operating profit by 21% from last year to 2030.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The triple-B-rated tranches—the ones that would be worth zero if the underlying mortgage pool experienced a loss of just 7 percent—were what he was after.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis