underpinnings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
Brent Ellis, principal analyst at market researcher Forrester, said the outage exposed what he called the "nested dependency" between popular digital platforms and the array of services providing the web's technical underpinnings.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
While this work does rely on modern innovations, it has important historical underpinnings.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2025
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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