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underpin

verb as in base

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This year’s program focuses on the road ahead for the technology that underpins our lives and businesses, including AI, biomedicine, cloud, and cybersecurity.

Changes in the technology underpinning the system have allowed Google to double the warning time it is now providing, giving people detailed alerts up to 48 hours before flooding occurs.

From Fortune

He was also a key pioneer of the business model that helps underpin “commission-free” stock brokerage for everyday traders.

From Quartz

The idea underpinning the computer scientists’ proposal is that consumers’ digital data is a form of unpaid labor.

From Quartz

Business publications have the access, the context, and the duty to tease out the financial forces underpinning all of these problems.

From Quartz

It is also their pattern to ignore the political problems that underpin the bad military performances of our “good guys.”

And dangerous because the Treasury securities that comprise that credit underpin much of the operations of the American economy.

Serious settlements had taken place, and rendered it necessary to underpin the walls.

They found the hole in which Mrs. Higgs had stepped, and the pole which had been used to underpin the middle boards.

We underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives?

I resumed: Further we must underpin the runners and work up the earth herring-wise.

There were laws upon laws, endeavours to underpin the framework of a decaying society.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to underpin, such as: build, construct, depend, derive, establish, and found.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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