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 a Morlockian twist, the creatures are not extraterrestrials, but intra: Their mole car has drilled up to the surface from their hive deep in the Earth’s substratum.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2016

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