underpinning

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Michael Bellingham, chief executive of UK Pet Food, said: "The evidence informing these changes is still evolving, and much of the research underpinning this has not yet been published or widely scrutinised."

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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

"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

But in the Andean past, the long, puffy bolls of South American cotton, some varieties naturally tinted pink, blue, or yellow, were the soft underpinning of Andean culture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann