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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

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

"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

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

Ayocuan was suggesting, Leon-Portilla said, that there is a time when humankind can touch the enduring truths that underlie our fleeting lives.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

"These results reveal that a shared genetic programme conserved throughout evolution underlies the specialisation of macrophages across tissues," adds Domien Vanneste, first author of the scientific article.

From Science Daily Mar. 1, 2026

Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

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 is a strong likelihood that what underlay the claims for the Grave Creek Stone were assumptions that impressive archaeological sites in North America could not possibly be the work of Native Americans.

From Slate Nov. 11, 2023

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

It is underlain by an unrealized wealth that may never be brought to light.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

On Thursday, he said the underlying agreement on recouping the toll revenues between Canada and the state of Michigan remains in place.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Unexplained weight loss, persistent tiredness, weakness, reduced appetite, nausea, or vomiting may indicate an underlying medical problem and warrant a conversation with a health care provider.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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