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has been underlying

  • present perfect progressive of underlie (3rd person singular).

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Perhaps the rhymes grew out of the dreams, as the dreams themselves grew out of something else which has been underlying my life this many a year.

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford