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underlie

[uhn-der-lahy] / ˌʌn dərˈlaɪ /


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The U.S. and China have taken different approaches in the AI models that underlie chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 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

"By uncovering how these microscopic regulators cooperate," Tolić says, "we are not only deepening our understanding of biology but also moving closer to correcting the failures that underlie disease."

From Science Daily Dec. 10, 2025

Nvidia’s graphics processing units underlie most modern AI data centers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

For the first time, science could see the universal laws that underlie all of these little half laws.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

That underlies the name of a new exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento, “Help Wanted/Leave Now!” about the “revolving door” of programs and practices that have alternately enticed and expelled workers, legal and undocumented.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

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

Keeping such power a safe distance from Israeli civilians underlies the thinking, and the subsequent action.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 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

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

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

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

Often their summits, worn down by frosts and rains, disclose the core of rock which, ages before, then hot and fluid, had underlain the crust and bent it upward into mountain form.

From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard

Japan’s underlying inflation is tracking near 2%, sowing greater urgency among BOJ policymakers to contain price pressures than when baseline trends were weaker, said people familiar with the bank’s thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Without higher energy prices and tariffs, underlying inflation would be closer to 2.5%, not far above the Fed’s 2% target, he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Still, the trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada were unchanged, averaging 1.95% annually.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Because the study examined genetic activity related both to GLP-1 use and to hair loss, the researchers say the overlapping genetic risk suggests that the two may share an underlying biological connection.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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