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"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
When you have these actions by the military that directly affect the liberties of civilians, that’s when you trigger the concerns that underlie the Posse Comitatus Act.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2025
They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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
"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
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
This is the conception of life which underlies the Norse religion, as somber a conception as the mind of man has ever given birth to.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
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
But the adoption of the initiative and the referendum substitutes a new principle for the one which has hitherto underlain American local institutions.
From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David
Because physical remodeling of brain synapses generally takes longer, the scientists concluded that rapamycin was changing brain function rather than rebuilding the brain's underlying structure.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
On the other hand, closed models, such as the ones produced by OpenAI and Anthropic, keep their underlying code and training data proprietary.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The scientists said this unveiled "a simplicity underlying the spectacular diversity of birdsongs".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The buyer of a credit default swap agreed to pay premiums for the lifespan of the underlying mortgage bond.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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