underlie
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Talk to some folks in your family whom you trust to make sure you’re not overstepping any unspoken boundaries that underlie family relationships.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025
"By uncovering how these microscopic regulators cooperate," Tolić says, "we are not only deepening our understanding of biology but also moving closer to correcting the failures that underlie disease."
From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025
But the “frontier” language models that underlie ChatGPT and Gemini run in giant data centers, and are far too demanding for a phone.
From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025
One of Bernanke’s key recommendations was that policymakers should be clear when they as individuals don’t fully believe in the assumptions that underlie the central forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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