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True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models share the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

It was there he learned the Socratic method of inquiry by oral combat that would underlie both his remarkable achievements and the harsh judgments that would precipitate his fall from grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

At some central banks, policymakers agree to a path for interest rates that underlies the forecast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

These help to dampen the chronic, low-grade inflammation that quietly underlies heart disease, diabetes and many cancers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

By contrast, her father’s hypervigilance also underlies the narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

A hypothesis is a tentative explanation, a proposed answer to the question that underlies your research.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

In postproduction, Del Toro sometimes underlay Elordi’s screams with his own guttural noises or the roars of lions and gorillas, imagining a voice created by mismatched lungs and a throat from different people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

It is more breathable but is often installed where a highly-resistant underlay like bitumen felt is already present, stopping vapour from escaping.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

The turf was intended to function as an underlay for a plastic liner atop it as part of a construction project.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

A fundamental tension has always underlain the history of the Civil Rights movement, much as it did contemporaneous news coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

The drill site in northwest Greenland was 138 miles from the coast and underlain by 4,560 feet of ice.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023

The region is underlain by quartz veins, rich in ore.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

In this case the pervious limestone is underlain by beds of impervious clay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

“The energy shock has lasted longer and become larger than expected, activity has been more resilient and recent data suggest that underlying disinflation may have stalled,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

While the recent market correction hasn’t changed the underlying AI story, it has shifted valuation expectations, said Christian Stocker, lead equity strategist at UniCredit, in a note to clients on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

He also acknowledged the impact of international events on fuel and food prices, and said the government needed to focus on tackling the underlying problems affecting people's lives.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer filed a fast-track appeal at the Supreme Court and urged the justices to set aside her order and to rule on the underlying legal question.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The intuition underlying moral-uplift strategies is fundamentally sound: our communities will never thrive if we fail to respect ourselves and one another.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander