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underlie

[uhn-der-lahy] / ˌʌn dərˈlaɪ /


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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

In sum, a hard math problem in the 19th century propelled the conceptual breakthroughs that underlie all the location services on our phones today.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

“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

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

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

A similar approach underlies “pulp painting,” in which artists use pigmented rag to work wet-into-wet as if they were using more traditional media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It also required him understanding that what underlies the struggles between millennials and their parents is how shockingly alike they are despite being constantly annoyed by each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"My lab studies the neurocircuitry that underlies how we make decisions," said Elena Vazey, associate professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the study's senior author.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

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

Part of the reasoning in 2018 was site investigations found the ground underlain with peat deposits, as well as toxic and phytotoxic - meaning poisonous to plants - risk from shallow soils.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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 latter is full of diversity of expression underlain by a thrill of mad eagerness brought out with a terrible truth.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea

If there’s a takeaway here, it is that underlying economic and business trends tend to have a far greater bearing on markets than politics.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

But the underlying sentiment is just as base as that of the less polished extremists.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

“We’re talking about the same issues over and over and over ... and a general underlying frustration with city government,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

They are not reasons to exempt its sports wagering business from the rules governing competitors offering the same underlying wager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Of course, there are assumptions underlying these phrases which are invalid or meaningless without clarification.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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