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underpinnings

noun as in basis

noun as in supporting structure

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At the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring her late husband on Thursday in Hollywood, Chadwick Boseman’s widow shared the underpinnings of the actor’s creative success.

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But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.

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Brent Ellis, principal analyst at market researcher Forrester, said the outage exposed what he called the "nested dependency" between popular digital platforms and the array of services providing the web's technical underpinnings.

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While this work does rely on modern innovations, it has important historical underpinnings.

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The danger is that the Gaza ceasefire lacks those underpinnings.

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

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