How to Use underpin in a Sentence
underpin
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But what underpins it all is the resurgence of Kawhi Leonard.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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The use of drones has underpinned many of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
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The rice at Sakae tastes slightly firmer than that which underpins a typical piece of nigiri.
—Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
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More than 100 city tools, some which underpin day-to-day functions, are impacted by the ordinance, but no tool has made it yet through the law’s new process.
—Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
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But the report also underpins resilience in the economy, which could give the Fed enough leeway to roll out yet another hike this year.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 27 July 2023
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It’s a setup often treated as a simple plot device, with no depth of feeling to underpin it.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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These videos are key to the psychological warfare that underpins this flare-up.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
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The album brims with joy and righteous anger, and illuminates the communal ties that underpin both.
—Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
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Nvidia is at the center of the AI boom, as its processors are key to training the large language models that underpin the technology.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
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The lesson of Lilith Fair — that women artists could have their own stage on which to perform and feel safe — underpins the Canadian documentary.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
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The two sides agreed to extend the cease-fire underpinning hostage-prisoner exchanges that began on Friday.
—WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
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The company makes many of the critical chips that provide the computing power needed to run the models that underpin AI tools.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
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Here, the Asian-American beauty reveals the products that underpin her skin-care routine and go-to summer makeup look.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 13 July 2023
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That strategy underpinned its economic success, but over time, the United States moved away from it.
—Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
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There was always an easy strength, a self-confident baritone underpinning, in his singing.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 July 2023
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Much of the trial has focused on the potential for achieving the performance targets that underpin Mr. Musk’s pay package.
—Rebecca Elliott and Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
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And underpinning it all, Will and Gene are agile, lively, and attentive at every turn.
—Bill Kopp, SPIN, 6 June 2024
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The allegations against Wade and Willis have been underpinned by a bitter divorce battle between Wade and his estranged wife.
—Amy Gardnerand Holly Bailey The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
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The third thing is that all of this is underpinned by sustainability and the move towards carbon neutrality.
—Time, 18 June 2023
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Open standards underpin open networks such as the internet.
—Alex Salkever, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
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The country is best known, perhaps, as the only one in the world that uses the happiness of its people as a guiding principle to underpin its philosophy.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
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Even his efforts, though, were underpinned by a serious purpose.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
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But the error—a belief that peak inflation will allow the Fed to ease after reaching peak rates early next year—continues to underpin bond, stock and futures prices.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
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First and foremost, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza underpin China’s argument that the world is becoming ever more disorderly.
—Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
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The large language models underpinning this new technology are able to do this by training on vast troves of online data.
—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 11 July 2023
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It’s one of the downsides of trying to use a system that was created when the biggest competition was horses to underpin modern commerce.
—Time, 15 Sep. 2022
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But Wright pulls back from the salacious college stories to examine the racial, class, and gender dynamics that underpin Greek culture on campus.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
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But those same methods won’t work for more complex models such as most of the deep learning systems that underpin today’s generative A.I. boom.
—Stephen Pastis, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
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The death of House Bill 1158 underpins the power of a lobby that is also opposed to a bill that would create regulation of management companies, which has stalled in the Colorado House and hasn’t had a vote in a month.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 3 May 2024
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The mayhem underpinning founder culture has been ubiquitous for decades.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 18 July 2024
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