underpinning

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Underpinning the advance: higher sales and profit estimates.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Underpinning the deal was the plan to begin a long-term collaboration: The L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Underpinning the country’s soaring trade surplus, data showed shipments to the European Union rose 14.8% in November from less than 1% in October.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Underpinning all their work is a humble nature.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

Underpinning walls: To underpin the walls as specified, requiring 750 cubic feet of brick masonry, or less, amount of masonry not to exceed 750 cubic feet.

From The Repair Of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348 by Mindeleff, Cosmos