underlie
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The U.S. and China have taken different approaches in the AI models that underlie chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"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
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
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 conviction underlies Christian accounts of dignity, equality, justice and human responsibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
"And that motive likely underlies this launch as well," he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
“It shows a profound, practical morality that underlies her work,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
There is a strong likelihood that what underlay the claims for the Grave Creek Stone were assumptions that impressive archaeological sites in North America could not possibly be the work of Native Americans.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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
The town is built on high ground underlain by solid limestone, and has much natural and architectural beauty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
They are also studying another possible approach to wide field-of-view performance that emerged while they were developing the underlying theory.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
“There’s likely to also be a challenge to the underlying investigation — that you didn’t actually go in and investigate the forced-labor practices in each one of these countries.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But is there cause for optimism in the underlying stats of the Belgian coach's first game in charge?
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat—soft and persistent, underlying everything.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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