- plural of underpinning.
underpinnings
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Yet there had to have been underpinnings to keep the group producing and its audience coming back for more on record and on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Christine Idzelis looked into the broad underpinnings of value stocks’ resurgence, which can set up a longer-term period of outperformance.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” takes the series’ thematic underpinnings — what parenting looks like between a masked human loner and an otherworldly toddler — and deepens them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
He charms the staff with his knowledge of these obscure machines – pointing out the bellows that power a church organ, and the pneumatic underpinnings of a piano roll player.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
In a 2012 study, Patil et al. examined the neural underpinnings of musical timbre in order to understand the underlying processes of timbre recognition.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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