underpinnings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Medium-term underpinnings for the Aussie currency persist too, including RBA divergence from the Fed and demand for commodities given Australia’s role as a producer of LNG.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The title of the park, which will likely move to a more permanent location in 2027, hints at its feminist underpinnings.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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
I analyzed the digital underpinnings of that text.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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