underlying

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“While higher real rates, a firmer dollar, and profit-taking could weigh on near-term price action, recent pullbacks suggest underlying demand remains resilient,” analysts at ING said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

World Athletics said allowing the athletes to transfer their nationality "would impinge upon and compromise the imperatives underlying the World Athletics eligibility rules and transfer of allegiance regulations".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The findings support the geroscience hypothesis, which proposes that a single underlying process of aging can drive multiple diseases.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

As BMO Capital Markets analyst Evan Seigerman pointed out, the FDA’s requirements appear to be “a reflection of conservatism” rather than an underlying risk to Lilly’s drug program.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

There is an underlying force that drives together the several creatures comprising myxotricha, and, then drives the assemblage into union with the termite.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas