underlying

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As with all Labor Department reports, the rosy top-line numbers require the context of their underlying trends—and those aren’t looking so pretty.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

The thinking is that those provisions protect the fund’s remaining investors from a rush to the exits that would force managers to sell underlying securities at fire sale prices.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Although only a small fraction of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a, the researchers suggest that dysfunction in this circuit may represent a shared mechanism underlying cognitive impairments in some patients.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In 2022, three people died of the disease; all were adults with underlying conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The underlying assumption of this position was most openly acknowledged by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina—namely, that “South Carolina and Georgia cannot do without slaves.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis