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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

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

"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

They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

The study, "Diet-microbiome synergy underlies obesity-associated immunotherapy efficacy," was published in Nature by McGill PhD graduate Lysanne Desharnais, Daniela Quail, and their collaborators.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

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

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

Approximately 91 per cent of these forests in the northern hemisphere are underlain by permafrost.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

This plain—the Alföld, as it is called—comprises an area of 37,400 square miles, composed chiefly of rich black soil underlain by water-worn gravel—a significant fact for geologists.

From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse

It changes the underlying chemistry of the glass itself.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Outgoing ECB President Christine Lagarde said that although the full effects of the energy shock are still unfolding, underlying inflation was broadly stable and there was little evidence of wages climbing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Chronic diastolic congestive heart failure was an underlying cause, and acute renal failure was also listed as a significant contributing condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Fidelity National cuts its full-year outlook as underlying revenue growth slows.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The ambiguity in Woman Holding a Balance serves to heighten our interest and pleasure, while the carefully organized composition expresses the artist’s underlying concept with singular clarity.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson