underpinning

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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

It is a live stress test of the geopolitical and financial architecture underpinning China’s strategic ambitions.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

But before building ever-faster defensive agents, we must address a deeper vulnerability: Much of the software underpinning critical systems today is poorly understood by its own operators.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall