underlie
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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
“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
"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
In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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
"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
"These results reveal that a shared genetic programme conserved throughout evolution underlies the specialisation of macrophages across tissues," adds Domien Vanneste, first author of the scientific article.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
It might turn out that the same tendency underlies the joining of organisms into communities, communities into ecosystems, and ecosystems into the biosphere.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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
However, Sidony says her flooring was never inspected, and has shown the BBC her end of tenancy agreement which instructed her to remove carpets, underlay, gripper rods and laminate flooring.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 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 is a strong likelihood that what underlay the claims for the Grave Creek Stone were assumptions that impressive archaeological sites in North America could not possibly be the work of Native Americans.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 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
The Penn loam consists of from 8 to 12 inches of a dark, Indian-red loam, underlain by a heavier loam of the same color.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
Books have long been used to train large language models, the technology underlying systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Its underlying cause is not known, but some experts think it could be linked to stress, trauma or a response to a virus or other inflammatory condition.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The owners’ underlying pitch then was that the reserve clause was crucial for the very survival of the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"We believe that the yields don't reflect the underlying fundamentals."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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