underlying
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Call options give the buyer the right to buy the underlying asset at a specified price within a certain timeframe.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026
While drivers felt the pinch of higher costs, there was little sign of a spillover into underlying inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
But these grand aggregate numbers mask worrying underlying data.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Mediation tends to produce short-term crisis abatement at the cost of long-term stability because agreements reached under third-party pressure often fail to resolve the underlying conditions responsible for conflict in the first place.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
But did a law—an underlying pattern—govern the genesis of variants?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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