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View definitions for underpinning

underpinning

noun as in supporting structure

noun as in basis

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Underpinning the goal to eliminate the department is the belief that education policy and practice should be almost entirely up to local officials.

In my own life, I find myself thinking about the philosophy underpinning dialectical behavior therapy, an approach designed for the most challenging situations and intense emotions: learning to simultaneously wholeheartedly accept and change.

Underpinning this transformation has been Botswana’s huge diamond reserves - measured by their value, the country is the world’s largest producer of the gemstone.

From BBC

The public-private effort underpinning the largest wildlife crossing in the world, under construction near L.A., has inspired an initiative to replicate it across California.

Whether the genes in question relate to the developmental process or to the expression of proteins, Sackton and Clark write that we’re finding that there’s often a lot more genetic convergence — similar things going on at the level of genes — underpinning the similarities we see between unrelated organisms than you’d expect.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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