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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

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

This fact creates double difficulties for efforts to test the hypothesis that intellectual differences underlie technological differences.

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It also required him understanding that what underlies the struggles between millennials and their parents is how shockingly alike they are despite being constantly annoyed by each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

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

"Adieu, M. Berthaud—for the present," he said; and had he not seemed too proud to threaten, a threat might have underlain his words.

From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

“We’re talking about the same issues over and over and over ... and a general underlying frustration with city government,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Since the previous meeting, the data have confirmed that underlying inflation remains broadly based,” the board said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But for most traders, the underlying structure makes little difference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Although she worked a full-time job while in custody, most of her income went to repay the diversion program, not the underlying fine that put her in custody in the first place.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander