underlying
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The plan is to build the underlying infrastructure followed by “providing the greatest possible software solution for making it usable, easy, accessible and efficient,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The new research indicates that collagen can lose its underlying structural order while the visible fiber network still looks largely unchanged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
But as mayor, Burnham argued issues out of his control exacerbated the problem with the underlying housing shortage, cost-of-living pressures and refugees being evicted from hotels meaning the numbers have remained high.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Pausing data-center permits doesn’t touch any of that; it leaves the underlying grid problem exactly where it was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the past, agriculture, writing, and improved pre-gun weapons took much longer to spread much greater distances, but the underlying social processes of population replacement and competition were essentially the same.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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