underpinnings

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He charms the staff with his knowledge of these obscure machines – pointing out the bellows that power a church organ, and the pneumatic underpinnings of a piano roll player.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“This would very directly attack the basic underpinnings of global commerce,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Indeed, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for establishing the theoretical underpinnings of this dynamic.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

At the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring her late husband on Thursday in Hollywood, Chadwick Boseman’s widow shared the underpinnings of the actor’s creative success.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Both were thoroughgoing materialists, not in prizing possessions but in holding that matter alone provided the underpinnings of the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan