How to Use underpinning in a Sentence

underpinning

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  • And the underpinning of that, which is the inequity, is bad for all of us.
    — courier-journal.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The underpinnings, though, have been rethought for the EV era.
    — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The Oregon Supreme Court found the legal underpinning for the doctrine flawed, and struck it down.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • If that were not enough, the gown sits atop a bespoke underpinning made of whalebone.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2023
  • The underpinnings of the topography might not be easy to build on.
    — Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • They’re joined by a new variant, the ES 350 F Sport, which has sportier underpinnings and styling cues.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
  • All of the business part is devoid of moral underpinning.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The underpinnings of winning starts with the losses — and the reactions to those losses.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
  • Catholic priests who relied on enslaved laborers and slave sales built the underpinnings of the Catholic Church.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • But Cuevas is well aware of her film’s tragic underpinnings.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • The company also hasn't said much about the underpinnings of Sign In with Apple.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 4 June 2019
  • Mindfulness is a bit of a buzzword these days, but the concepts underpinning it are the real thing, says Lardier.
    — Kat Eschner, Fortune, 7 May 2022
  • The aim of the group is to study the medical underpinnings of the lung float test, also referred to as the floating lung test, and determine whether it should be used in court.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And that, of course, doesn’t include Netflix’s fiscal underpinning of the new Stateside life of Harry and Meghan.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • For model-year 2024, the underpinnings remain the same, although our test car is an all-wheel-drive version.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
  • But the underpinnings of the Expedition shine through — towing up to a whopping 9,300 pounds when equipped right.
    — Scott Sturgis, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In the case of someone like Henry or Rosie, there's less of that electronic underpinning.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2019
  • What: Bareilles’ sixth album is full of singer-songwritery jams with poignant underpinnings.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 1 May 2019
  • Galileo’s contention that the Earth was not the center of the universe sparked an epic clash of reason versus religion, one that, in the pope’s view, threatened the underpinnings of the Catholic faith.
    — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
  • To be sure, the political underpinnings of the case were not ignored on any network.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Oil and gas form the underpinning of our current economies and many jobs are intrinsically tied to them.
    — Pawan Mehra, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Yes, there are ways to puncture the moral and economic underpinnings of this culture and self-regard.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Part of the underpinning of successful creative leadership is trust — trusting people in the end to do the right thing.
    — Claudia Eller, Variety, 22 Dec. 2021
  • With its Latin underpinnings, both English and Spanish share many cognates, words that have the same origin.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Over the next 30 years, his essay became a major underpinning of the case for secession.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • The emotional underpinnings of the movie rest on the rigid and sketchily drawn backstories with which Kelly and Cole are endowed.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • The underpinnings of that run-up have been the strong growth of the company’s services, which carry higher gross margins, and strong hopes for a 5G iPhone later this year.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Details are top secret, but its large wheels tip their hubs to its heavy duty underpinnings.
    — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • For my coverage on pertinent prompting strategies and the nitty-gritty technical underpinnings of these means of getting past the filters of generative AI, see the link here and the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In its broader applications, blockchain provides the technical underpinnings for an entirely new approach to the internet.
    — David Pakman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024

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