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underlie

[uhn-der-lahy] / ˌʌn dərˈlaɪ /


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Open-weight models typically share only the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them, while true open-source models allow full access to training data and code.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 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

Nvidia’s graphics processing units underlie most modern AI data centers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 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 consistency was one of the most striking results, adding evidence that dogs and humans share important features of the biology that underlies aging.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 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

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

This is the same sense of ‘modern’ which underlies Butterfield’s title The Origins of Modern Science, and reflects a usage established by the contemporaries of Newton.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

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

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

But one thing comforts me: a bit of madness has underlain every great work until that work was completed and had compassed its end.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

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

Japan’s underlying inflation is tracking near 2%, sowing greater urgency among BOJ policymakers to contain price pressures than when baseline trends were weaker, said people familiar with the bank’s thinking.

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

Without higher energy prices and tariffs, underlying inflation would be closer to 2.5%, not far above the Fed’s 2% target, he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

We do not understand human behavior well enough to be sure of the mechanisms underlying these relationships, although we can conjecture.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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