undergird

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He spoke of his religiosity — his grandfather and great-grandfather were Baptist preachers — and talked at length about the optimism, a political rarity these days, that undergirds his vision for the country.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the last generation, several assumptions undergirded international relations and commerce.

From The Wall Street Journal

There are no grand speeches about diversity undergirded by uplifting music.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet all are undergirded by peoples that had a pre-existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

We try and understand the meaning systems that undergird whatever group we’re studying.

From Salon