underlie
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True open-source models allow full access to training data and code, while open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
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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
By contrast, her father’s hypervigilance also underlies the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The new model is going up against OpenAI’s GPT-5, the latest AI which underlies its ChatGPT app.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
They also have to absorb the cost of modernizing infrastructure that underlies any surveillance system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
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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
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
The music of the pearl was triumphant in Kino’s head, and the quiet melody of the family underlay it, and they wove themselves into the soft padding of sandaled feet in the dust.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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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 rule of the high chiefs and notables seems to have always underlain and perhaps alternated with monarchy.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
AXA targets a compound annual growth rate for underlying earnings per share for the period of between 7% and 9% as well as an underlying return on equity of 15% to 17%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
John Higgins, a cardiologist and researcher, said underlying heart conditions often go undetected in children.
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
John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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