underpinning

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Investors, still questioning whether a truce between the U.S. and Iran will last after their two-week cease-fire agreement, will be looking for company earnings to provide a solid fundamental underpinning for a jittery stock market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026

This is the tantalizing question underpinning Adam Phillips’s essay collection “The Life You Want.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Supreme Court decision that annulled the tariffs underpinning that agreement.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

In the recognition by Pythagoras and Plato that the Cosmos is knowable, that there is a mathematical underpinning to nature, they greatly advanced the cause of science.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan