undergird
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Insider-trading rules backed by criminal penalties undergird confident stock trading.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
We try and understand the meaning systems that undergird whatever group we’re studying.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
For many Americans, the 138-year-old technology of cars is synonymous with freedom, even though American drivers don’t realize the high subsidies that undergird car culture.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
They talked about the entire structure that ought to undergird American democracy, how it has been compromised, and what we miss about the fight over norms.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2023
In this universe, literacy and religion undergird the legal system.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
His writings undergirded his cabinet’s reforms in the 1870s to ameliorate living and working conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Yet complacency, undergirded by the remarkable strength of the stock market, is precisely what U.S. leaders are showing.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
There are no grand speeches about diversity undergirded by uplifting music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2026
“It was never particularly clear what constitutional theory undergirded the oath of office charges. I suspect the DA’s office will button up their theory and go back to the grand jury.”
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024
I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Yet the factors undergirding the market’s comeback are both relatively straightforward and well-grounded in fundamentals, according to Société Générale strategist Manish Kabra.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
That’s the principle undergirding the AI industry’s vast expenditures on data centers and high-performance chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Pecker also testified Thursday that, at least during the 2016 presidential campaign, he understood Trump's concerns undergirding the hush-money scheme to revolve around "the impact it would have upon the election."
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024
The web-based tool, and the methods undergirding its creation, appears in the journal Science Advances.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
The fireplace, the beams undergirding the loft, the tools dangling off nails on the walls.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
