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underlie

[uhn-der-lahy] / ˌʌn dərˈlaɪ /


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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

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

One of Bernanke’s key recommendations was that policymakers should be clear when they as individuals don’t fully believe in the assumptions that underlie the central forecast.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 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

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

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

"These results reveal that a shared genetic programme conserved throughout evolution underlies the specialisation of macrophages across tissues," adds Domien Vanneste, first author of the scientific article.

From Science Daily Mar. 1, 2026

Typically, the January employment report also includes revisions to population figures in the data that underlies measures of unemployment and other labor force measures.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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 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

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

Meanwhile, for the current year, AXA forecasts underlying earnings of about 8.6 billion euros, which compares with 8.4 billion euros in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Anthropic created the popular chatbot Claude and has this year released a number of increasingly capable AI models, the technology underlying AI chatbots.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The sensation is identical to entering the circus, even down to the scent of caramel lingering in the air, but there is something deeper beneath it, something heavy and ancient underlying the paper and string.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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