underlie

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Talk to some folks in your family whom you trust to make sure you’re not overstepping any unspoken boundaries that underlie family relationships.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025

But the “frontier” language models that underlie ChatGPT and Gemini run in giant data centers, and are far too demanding for a phone.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

It was there he learned the Socratic method of inquiry by oral combat that would underlie both his remarkable achievements and the harsh judgments that would precipitate his fall from grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

One of Bernanke’s key recommendations was that policymakers should be clear when they as individuals don’t fully believe in the assumptions that underlie the central forecast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

This fact creates double difficulties for efforts to test the hypothesis that intellectual differences underlie technological differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond