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“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

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

The award honored their foundational work on neural networks, multilayered systems that underlie many powerful AI systems, from OpenAI’s chatbots to self-driving cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

That conviction underlies Christian accounts of dignity, equality, justice and human responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

"My lab studies the neurocircuitry that underlies how we make decisions," said Elena Vazey, associate professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the study's senior author.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 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

It might turn out that the same tendency underlies the joining of organisms into communities, communities into ecosystems, and ecosystems into the biosphere.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

The tenderness which has underlain even John's remonstrances culminates in his closing words.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

This showed that the response of the light was directly tied to the symmetry of the underlying pattern, revealing a new type of symmetry-controlled optical behavior.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

These funds typically seek to double or even triple the daily returns of underlying assets such as broad market indexes, commodities, cryptocurrencies and single stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

As Pettis told me, the system can make a Western-style financial crisis less likely without making the underlying problem any less costly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Despite their 100% starts, the underlying numbers behind Arsenal and City's starts do not imply total dominance.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

There is an underlying force that drives together the several creatures comprising myxotricha, and, then drives the assemblage into union with the termite.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas