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Used this way, AI could strengthen rather than displace the judgment and self-belief that underlie agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"A similar mechanism could underlie individual differences in responses to other rewarding stimuli," says author and neuroscientist Josep Marco-Pallarés of the University of Barcelona.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 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

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 fact creates double difficulties for efforts to test the hypothesis that intellectual differences underlie technological differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

This question underlies Naomi Kanakia’s snappily titled “What’s So Great About the Great Books?” a compelling if excessively cautious defense of classic literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

I just wanted us to be talking and joking comfortably, like we were on the couch together back home, but some tension underlay everything.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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 Loudoun sandy loam consists of from 8 to 12 inches of a heavy brown or gray sandy loam, underlain by a heavy yellow or red loam or clay loam.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head

“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

“Since the previous meeting, the data have confirmed that underlying inflation remains broadly based,” the board said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But for most traders, the underlying structure makes little difference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Late last month, a leveraged ETF that aims to provide a return of 300% of the daily swings of an underlying semiconductor index saw a record weekly inflow but continued to struggle.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

She was unaccustomed to the Kabuli dialect of his Farsi, and to the underlying layer of Pashto accent, the language of his native Kandahar.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini