underlie
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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
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
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
That consistency was one of the most striking results, adding evidence that dogs and humans share important features of the biology that underlies aging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 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
Typically, the January employment report also includes revisions to population figures in the data that underlies measures of unemployment and other labor force measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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
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
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
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
The territory underlain with this natural gas has not yet been clearly defined.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various
She has never been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, and a medical test to provoke a seizure in Linton after the crash came back with no abnormal brain activity, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
There’s continuous underlying demand globally for diesel used in transportation, but the Northern Hemisphere sees a surge in diesel demand in the fall, due to the harvest, and again toward the end of the year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
While Linton has not been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, defense attorney Jovan Blacknell said Linton suffered intermittent seizures during her life, including at the time of the wreck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“But amidst that noise, let’s not lose sight of our underlying operational improvement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
New ways of stringing words and sentences together come into fashion and vanish again, but the underlying structure simply grows, enriches itself, expands.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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