underlie
Example Sentences
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The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.
From Science Daily
Its size and symmetry provide critical insight into how electrons interact and pair, making it a key fingerprint of the underlying superconducting mechanism.
From Science Daily
This hint of retreat from the earlier crackdown shows that even Gnassingbé's nimble international networking cannot defuse the underlying political discontent at home.
From BBC
Not the recipe, exactly, but the underlying structure.
From Salon
Meeting those targets delivered the underlying stock options to him, while dramatic share-price appreciation swelled their value many times over.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
