underlying
Example Sentences
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The important question for people who want the truth is what any particular goof says about the underlying ballots, and whether it involves enough votes to be decisive.
These psychiatric conditions affect millions of people worldwide, yet they remain difficult to diagnose because scientists have not fully understood their underlying molecular causes.
From Science Daily
"These variations help us better interpret Greenland's tectonic history and the influence of this history on the geophysical properties of the underlying rocks."
From Science Daily
The Supreme Court allowed both cancellations to take effect while the underlying legal challenges proceeded.
His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.