underpinning

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Economists have recently called for more transparency around how individual members of the RBA board vote on interest rates and the range of views underpinning those decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"Pretty much the entire underpinning of Germany's post-war settlement was based around the Transatlantic Alliance," says the Berlin-based journalist and author John Kampfner.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"But those are just simulations, not the real universe. Now we have a foundation which can let us know if some of the astrophysics underpinning those simulations is correct."

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton