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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
"By uncovering how these microscopic regulators cooperate," Tolić says, "we are not only deepening our understanding of biology but also moving closer to correcting the failures that underlie disease."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 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
Nvidia’s graphics processing units underlie most modern AI data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
That underlies the name of a new exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento, “Help Wanted/Leave Now!” about the “revolving door” of programs and practices that have alternately enticed and expelled workers, legal and undocumented.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
This question underlies Naomi Kanakia’s snappily titled “What’s So Great About the Great Books?” a compelling if excessively cautious defense of classic literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But five days after that, the DOJ notified the court in the Texas case that “the government has decided to maintain the definition” that underlies the ghost gun rule.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
The new model is going up against OpenAI’s GPT-5, the latest AI which underlies its ChatGPT app.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
It is this that underlies his decision to declare war on ‘false rumour and the opinions of some, based on unreliable and untrustworthy foundations’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In postproduction, Del Toro sometimes underlay Elordi’s screams with his own guttural noises or the roars of lions and gorillas, imagining a voice created by mismatched lungs and a throat from different people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
However, Sidony says her flooring was never inspected, and has shown the BBC her end of tenancy agreement which instructed her to remove carpets, underlay, gripper rods and laminate flooring.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
California created an orchard for the world in large part by tapping into prehistoric aquifers that underlay the Central Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
The turf was intended to function as an underlay for a plastic liner atop it as part of a construction project.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
A fundamental tension has always underlain the history of the Civil Rights movement, much as it did contemporaneous news coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Approximately 91 per cent of these forests in the northern hemisphere are underlain by permafrost.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
The drill site in northwest Greenland was 138 miles from the coast and underlain by 4,560 feet of ice.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
The region is underlain by quartz veins, rich in ore.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
The town is built on high ground underlain by solid limestone, and has much natural and architectural beauty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he does not believe Treasury yields reflect the underlying fundamentals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Despite the investigations and promises of reforms, critics say underlying problems persist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Markets are effectively being pulled in two directions — higher energy prices are strengthening the case for tighter policy, while softer underlying inflation could give central banks a reason to remain cautious.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Reto Knutti and his team at ETH Zurich have tried to strip out the effects of El Niño and other natural fluctuations to reveal the underlying trend.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Usually, whenever someone asked me if I felt like I was going to have a seizure, which I could tell was Julia’s underlying question, it would make me angry.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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