substratum

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The message and the relentless pursuit of perfection it implored served as the substratum of Eric Musselman’s life.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

In 2018, it’s easy to dismiss the concept of Queer Eye as reductive: five gay men, possessing expertise across the fashion and lifestyle substratum, make over a hapless straight man.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2018

C Horizon: This is substratum and is a zone of mechanical weathering.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In addition to the rich biodiversity, they discovered that corals and other “community encrusters” were living on the pipe as a substratum.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2015

There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson