underpinning
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The basic logic underpinning his thinking is that the more people who own and use bitcoin, the greater the adoption of its network, which can provide a base for assessing its value.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yet, the technology underpinning autonomous warfare risks outpacing the Russian and Ukrainian frameworks for maintaining some degree of human control over weapons.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
The AI product space is increasingly competitive, underpinning demand for computing power and AI infrastructure, the strategists add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
For the UK there is also a vital argument about data sovereignty, and avoiding total reliance on either the US or other countries for the IT infrastructure underpinning large swathes of our service economy.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Warsh hasn’t given the intellectual underpinnings for his “swerve” away from how Fed chairs over the past two decades have communicated, Tetlow noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yet there had to have been underpinnings to keep the group producing and its audience coming back for more on record and on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” takes the series’ thematic underpinnings — what parenting looks like between a masked human loner and an otherworldly toddler — and deepens them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
He charms the staff with his knowledge of these obscure machines – pointing out the bellows that power a church organ, and the pneumatic underpinnings of a piano roll player.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Fie would christen the building, which had been slated for demolition but featured sturdy concrete underpinnings, as the Radiation Laboratory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
