underlie
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True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
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
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
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
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
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
"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 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
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
He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
It is underlain by an unrealized wealth that may never be brought to light.
From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman
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
As Pettis told me, the system can make a Western-style financial crisis less likely without making the underlying problem any less costly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Despite their 100% starts, the underlying numbers behind Arsenal and City's starts do not imply total dominance.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Science was barren of the idea that underlying the phenomena of Nature might be the laws of physics.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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