underpinnings

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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

Regarding contemporary customs, Mr. Currey reveals part of the experiential underpinnings of his book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Indeed, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for establishing the theoretical underpinnings of this dynamic.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife