- present participle of underlie.
underlying
Example Sentences
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The company said that closed models—where developers keep the source code, training data, and underlying model weights hidden—could pose security risks for users because they sometimes block responses to useful cyberdefense requests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
On Wall Street, that kind of signal — not falling on bad news — can be read as a sign of underlying strength.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The dispute was over the new pay and grading structure designed to deal with the underlying issues which led to thousands of equal pay claims from female workers past and present.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But the name also catches their underlying sameness.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Rather than simply producing nice but random tunes with accompaniment, they framed them according to an underlying logic: every piece they composed was constructed with the help of what amounted to musical maps.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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