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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

True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models share the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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

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

At some central banks, policymakers agree to a path for interest rates that underlies the forecast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

It is this that underlies his decision to declare war on ‘false rumour and the opinions of some, based on unreliable and untrustworthy foundations’.

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

It is more breathable but is often installed where a highly-resistant underlay like bitumen felt is already present, stopping vapour from escaping.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 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

When his music was combined with Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” audiences got to experience a gorgeous melody atop a disturbing, abstract underlay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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 town is built on high ground underlain by solid limestone, and has much natural and architectural beauty.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Late last month, a leveraged ETF that aims to provide a return of 300% of the daily swings of an underlying semiconductor index saw a record weekly inflow but continued to struggle.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Satellite observations spanning recent decades reveal that other glaciers on Vega Island have also lost ice, exposing increasing amounts of the underlying bedrock.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The underlying message is straightforward: better blood pressure control may depend not only on what people remove from their diets, but also on what they add.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

“We have adopted a conservative stance on both these measures and forecast underlying Ebitda of A$162.3 million,” analyst Steve Wheen says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The underlying reason why this transition was piecemeal is that food production systems evolved as a result of the accumulation of many separate decisions about allocating time and effort.

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