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Used this way, AI could strengthen rather than displace the judgment and self-belief that underlie agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

“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

"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

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

The study, "Diet-microbiome synergy underlies obesity-associated immunotherapy efficacy," was published in Nature by McGill PhD graduate Lysanne Desharnais, Daniela Quail, and their collaborators.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

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 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

Fidelity National cuts its full-year outlook as underlying revenue growth slows.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

If correct, this would mean that the basic organization underlying the brain's crossed connections began developing more than half a billion years before modern humans appeared.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The company lifted its underlying Ebitda guidance due to a better-than-expected performance in its pharma division, and its new outlook points to upgrades to consensus expectations, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Instead, their prices are anchored to the underlying asset by a system of funding rates.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

So you are basically listening for a running, even pulse underlying the rhythms of the music.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones