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

It “supports diverse biological communities representative of hard substratum in deep water” according to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2020

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

Sponge larvae are able to swim; however, adults are non-motile and spend their life attached to a substratum.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 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