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underpinned

verb as in base

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He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.

The problem here is that this exchange is underpinned by some fundamental misunderstandings.

The 1990s stock market bubble had just burst along with the collapse of telecom spending that had underpinned it.

After all, the rigid dogmas that once underpinned the conflict have long since been binned.

Such instruments can be put in place now but must be underpinned and reinforced by a global agreement on climate change.

A week later, he got a jar as he stood with Charnock beside a part of the track they had laboriously underpinned.

"The freight's making good time and when she's gone I must go up the track to the piece the boys underpinned," he said.

The foundation of the south side of the Choir and the south-eastern Transept have been underpinned and thoroughly repaired.

During the latter part of the time its aisle walls were underpinned.

Religious laws made for their own government, which underpinned their social life, were rarely meddled with.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to underpinned, such as: locate, plant, derive, depend, root, and predicate.

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

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