underlying

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Those restrictions include limiting the amount of additional debt private-equity firms can place on the underlying company and their ability to sell or borrow against its equipment or other tangible assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Mark Warner, the panel's top Democrat, said the underlying bill had been sound but that Pulte was "grossly unqualified" for the role.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

To prevent prices of perpetual futures from diverging too dramatically from the spot price of the underlying asset, perpetual futures traded on exchanges like Hyperliquid rely on a mechanism called funding rates.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

The underlying engine driving the museum’s experience is the Large Nature Model, a first-of-its-kind open-access multi-modal artificial intelligence system trained entirely on environmental datasets rather than human text outputs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Then, with an amusement that did not try to shield its underlying seriousness, she added, “My niece goes to a school on the mainland and at age six she could spell ‘onomatopoeia’!”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie