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underpin

[uhn-der-pin] / ˌʌn dərˈpɪn /


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An Anthropic spokesperson told Time in 2024 that neither Daniela nor Dario Amodei identify as EAs, though they are “clearly sympathetic to some of the ideas that underpin effective altruism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"We know we can make it huge scale, so that's why it's such an interesting technology, because it can underpin many applications."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Treasury yields, which underpin the rates on new mortgages, auto loans and several other forms of consumer credit, have climbed appreciably since early 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

“ByteDance respects the intellectual property rights that underpin creative industries around the world, and we believe responsible innovation in AI goes hand in hand with meaningful protections for rightsholders,” ByteDance’s Rogovin said in the statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The AIG FP traders present were shocked by how little thought or analysis seemed to underpin the subprime mortgage machine: It was simply a bet that home prices would never fall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

In tokenized form, funds, stocks and other assets can trade on the blockchain, the digital ledger that underpins many cryptocurrencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In an initial report, external, Nats said the defect happened in the system which "underpins the management of UK airspace".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Finally, shifting financing would weaken the sense of shared responsibility that underpins Medicare.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

When the experimental method is successful in explaining what was previously inexplicable, it thus not only establishes particular scientific theories, it also confirms the validity of the general approach which underpins experimentation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A major reason homeownership underpinned wealth for previous generations is that a mortgage can function as a sort of forced savings account.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

For miners, the wider positive outlook is also underpinned by strong gold prices, with futures at $4,653.90 a troy ounce on safe-haven buying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Analysts at Citi said they expect a “robust” 30 trillion won per quarter dividend to be sustained, backed by the secular memory market outlook that’s underpinned by long-term agreements.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The campaigns were infused with the revolutionary spirit of the time but underpinned by Bailey's forensic understanding of the law.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Despite all the resulting conflicts and contradictions, which remain with us still, it was the idea of discovery that made the new science, and the new set of intellectual values that underpinned it, possible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Yet, the technology underpinning autonomous warfare risks outpacing the Russian and Ukrainian frameworks for maintaining some degree of human control over weapons.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

"This is national and international infrastructure," he said, warning that the ecological system underpinning it is "approaching a tipping point".

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

A spokesperson said: "In essence, we are strongly supportive of the goals of the scheme and of the underpinning principles of better bus travel. Our concern is around the mechanism proposed to achieve this."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

For Farber, the "overarching ecosystem" in Munich and surrounding Bavaria state is underpinning the growth of defence startups.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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