underlie
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“The paintings are about the smoldering tensions that underlie the American dream, so I think it’s a particularly apt moment to bring them back into the public eye.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
This process is thought to underlie decisions, thoughts, and memories, and studying it directly could help explain how the brain performs complex computations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
For the first time, science could see the universal laws that underlie all of these little half laws.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Keeping such power a safe distance from Israeli civilians underlies the thinking, and the subsequent action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
The new model is going up against OpenAI’s GPT-5, the latest AI which underlies its ChatGPT app.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
This is the same sense of ‘modern’ which underlies Butterfield’s title The Origins of Modern Science, and reflects a usage established by the contemporaries of Newton.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
The quiet, inassailable knowledge of this truth had underlain Tanqueray's most irritable utterances.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
This showed that the response of the light was directly tied to the symmetry of the underlying pattern, revealing a new type of symmetry-controlled optical behavior.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The leveraged fund earned an annualized average of 1.6 percentage points less than the underlying index over the long run—a cumulative gulf of more than 590 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
AXA targets a compound annual growth rate for underlying earnings per share for the period of between 7% and 9% as well as an underlying return on equity of 15% to 17%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Anthropic created the popular chatbot Claude and has this year released a number of increasingly capable AI models, the technology underlying AI chatbots.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The process of selection, notably, acts on a physical or biological attribute—and the underlying genes are selected passively as a result.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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