underpinning

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Underpinning the good vibes: hopes for a peace deal in the Middle East conflict and an earnings season that has eased concerns that profits won’t keep up with stock gains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Underpinning the deal was the plan to begin a long-term collaboration: The L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Underpinning the super accounts is a government pension that goes to retirees who meet certain income and asset criteria.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Underpinning Wiegman's personality is a ruthless desire to win.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025

Underpinning walls: To underpin the walls as specified, requiring 750 cubic feet of brick masonry, or less, amount of masonry not to exceed 750 cubic feet.

From The Repair Of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348 by Mindeleff, Cosmos