underlie

Example Sentences

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The Supreme Court allowed both cancellations to take effect while the underlying legal challenges proceeded.

From The Wall Street Journal

His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the singles economy brings opportunities, it also reflects the underlying pressure on Chinese households.

From Barron's

“The tax treatment of gambling differs from the tax treatment of contracts and straddles, even though the underlying act is still gambling,” says Nicole DeRosa, director of tax at SKC & Co.

From Barron's

Meanwhile, startups like Pathway are betting on novel underlying architectures for AIs, which change how they learn and form memories.

From The Wall Street Journal