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
  • The price of ether, the native token underpinning the ethereum blockchain, fell to around $2,300 and has erased its gains for the year.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
  • It’s based on a new platform that will underpin a range of EVs.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2021
  • Now, the duo has unveiled the very vessel that will underpin the nascent E1 series.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2021
  • Ultium will underpin and power the 30 new EVs GM has promised to launch by mid-decade.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2021
  • New voices, new ideas, but all underpinned by the same high standards.
    — James Pearce, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As discussed above, many people and process changes underpin that shift as well.
    — Tolga Tarhan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • The use of drones has underpinned many of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield.
    — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Many said the European Union's plan to take in Ukraine as a member one day could help underpin that reform process.
    — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 5 July 2022
  • Fisker hasn't announced which platform will underpin the Ocean.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • This will also underpin a sibling model from its Kia sister brand, the EV6, which offers a 510 km range.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 May 2021
  • The war in Ukraine, along with Covid-19, have exposed glaring weaknesses in the supply chains that underpin the world economy.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • At the same time, some investors have been betting that inflation may stick higher in the long run, underpinning gold’s run.
    — Yvonne Yue Li, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • That’s the central insight underpinning Goodman’s new book, at least for me.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Which is one more piece of evidence that the cryptochrome protein might underpin the robins’ magnetic sense.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The industries that have underpinned the economy, like the 3M plant producing Post-it Notes and Scotch tape, are healthy and steadily growing.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
  • These videos are key to the psychological warfare that underpins this flare-up.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The album brims with joy and righteous anger, and illuminates the communal ties that underpin both.
    — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But for many Russians, like a 79-year-old Muscovite named Valentina, the sacrifices and successes still loom large — and underpin support for the war in Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • 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
  • Informal labor and unsafe living conditions may underpin their start in life, and the lives of the mothers who bore them.
    — ELLE, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The inflows underpin a rally that has carried U.S. stocks to records, ahead of major indexes in Europe or Asia.
    — Sebastian Pellejero, WSJ, 25 July 2021
  • The two sides agreed to extend the cease-fire underpinning hostage-prisoner exchanges that began on Friday.
    — WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Nvidia got a jump on its rivals by realizing that its chips, initially made for rendering graphics, happened to be perfectly suited for training neural networks, the programs that underpin modern AI.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024

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