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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

This process is thought to underlie decisions, thoughts, and memories, and studying it directly could help explain how the brain performs complex computations.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology.

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

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

"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

A hypothesis is a tentative explanation, a proposed answer to the question that underlies your research.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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

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

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

This plain—the Alföld, as it is called—comprises an area of 37,400 square miles, composed chiefly of rich black soil underlain by water-worn gravel—a significant fact for geologists.

From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse

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

The leveraged fund earned an annualized average of 1.6 percentage points less than the underlying index over the long run—a cumulative gulf of more than 590 percentage points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Total loss is less likely with lower leverage and broader underlying assets.

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

First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee