underlying
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The underlying issues seemed distant when the countries' leaders met for the draw in Washington DC in December and posed for a selfie with Fifa boss Gianni Infantino.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
"Our approach enabled us to isolate specific genetic and immune factors, then translate those signatures to human brain scans, showing that different connectivity patterns encode different mechanistic pathways underlying autism."
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Chief Executive David Layton, in an impromptu appearance on Bloomberg TV, said the limits on redemptions weren’t to do with underlying performance, but were driven by jitters among wealthy clients toward private markets more broadly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Those cells cannot grow hair in a lab, only when they are transplanted into skin and connected with underlying tissue.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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