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High stock valuations and low unemployment, meanwhile, have bolstered spending among richer households while allowing Americans of more modest means to spend at levels adequate to undergird a six-year-old expansion.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

They also undergird yields on the corporate bonds that companies use for funding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

We will undergird his consciousness and his dreams.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee

But Mr. Hunter’s economy of means, which extends to often terse or quiet dialogue undergirded by melancholy subtext, only enhances the tenderness and humanity of his writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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

But the story’s many twists and hair’s-breadth escapes — its devolution into a Holocaust picaresque — lack the foundation of historical truth that undergirded the writer’s debut effort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

Day center activities are undergirded with building relationships because, as Towey explains, “relationship is what drives outcomes and impact.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 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

The concerns undergirding the report not only remain but "show no signs of abating," according to Sheri Berman, a Barnard College professor of political science who studies authoritarianism and democracy.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2025

The work to produce and analyze the synthetic droplets is the result of a combination of deeply integrated interdisciplinarity and the human factors undergirding scientific work.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

But pop the hood on this bad boy and there’s an undeniable cynicism undergirding this vehicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

The fireplace, the beams undergirding the loft, the tools dangling off nails on the walls.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead