undergird

Example Sentences

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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

Ms. Velez’s Patti exudes a warmth undergirded by a fierce desire to protect her son, and a pleading hope to persuade Nelson that retrenchment is the only path forward.

From The Wall Street Journal