underlying

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The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise interest rates this month to mitigate the burden of rising costs as policymakers grow more worried that the fallout from the conflict will accelerate underlying inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Screening programmes, where healthy people's hearts aged 14-35 are tested to look for dangerous underlying issues, have found that around one in 300 could be affected.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The derivatives typically give investors leveraged long or short exposure to an underlying asset.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

At this thickness, the metal undergoes a transition from a strained state caused by the underlying material to a more relaxed atomic arrangement.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

She was unaccustomed to the Kabuli dialect of his Farsi, and to the underlying layer of Pashto accent, the language of his native Kandahar.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini