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• As part of genoframe we have identified the genetic underpinnings of the driver neurons.2015 September 29, “Control of Neuronal Network in Caenorhabditis elegans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry genoframe
• This year's earnings performance has knocked the underpinnings from the price of this former glamor issue.1961, Financial World, volume 116, page 38. From the entry glamor issue
• It is there in the rabid ideology underpinning Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) thuggish assault on immigrants in Minneapolis.2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry rabid
• Finally, khavershaft highlighted internal networks of trust and solidarity that were important underpinnings of communities, especially for Bundist immigrants.2024, Naomi Hemstreet, “Jewish Immigrants in Argentina: The Bund as a Transnational Connection”, in Young Historians Conference, page 5. From the entry Bundist
• Metamodernism's genealogy and its earliest ideological underpinnings are contested.2018, William B. Parsons, Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s), Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry metamodernism
• We can make positive attitudes the underpinning of our classrooms.2012, Daniel Heller, “Kindness”, in Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, R&L Education, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry bodyism
• Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin.2004 May 11, “Prisoners of the Caucasus”, in The Guardian. From the entry executioner
• Not only does she lip-synch with breathtaking accuracy, her performance gives the cotton-candy production its only underpinning of realism.1999, The Golden Age of Musicals, page 50. From the entry ghost
• Us and them: the Schmittian fantasy underpinning the binary myth of a carceral state like Safetown, “everybody keeping watch on everybody else”.2022 July 21, Imogen Dewey, “Enclave by Claire G Coleman review – why shouldn’t we make a utopia?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from…. From the entry Schmittian
• Underpinning New Labour's mononormative family policy was the assumption that long-term coupled relationships provided the most stable environment in which to bring up children.2013, Eleanor Wilkinson, “Learning to love again: 'Broken families', citizenship and the state promotion of coupledom”, in Geoforum…. From the entry mononormative
• I address the ideological underpinnings of this 'Sunniphobia' in Chapter 5, as part of the discussion of the structural problems of the US counter-insurgency campaign.2005, Ahmed Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq, Cornell University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry Sunniphobia
• A large language model (LLM), the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, is a type of neural network, a computer program different from typical software.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow, Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time. From the entry ream
• The reorientation of the SDFs operational posture has gone hand in hand with a sustained legislative effort to alter the legal underpinnings of Japan's security policy.2017, Robert S. Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, editors, Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN. From the entry SDF
• Ten years ago, the Wall Street wirehouse brokerage firm seemed unassailable – part of the very firmament underpinning the entire investment industry from coast to coast.2012 January 25, Josh Brown, “Perhaps I’ve Been a Bit too Harsh …”, in Wealth Manager Blog, The Wall Street Journal, archived from the…. From the entry firmament
• This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry look out

Meaning of underpinning

1. noun A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall.
2. noun A basis for something.
3. noun The lower body or legs.

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How do you use underpinning in a sentence?

Underpinning is used as a noun. For example: “This house's underpinning is not up to standard.”

What is a short sentence with underpinning?

“This house's underpinning is not up to standard.”

What does underpinning mean?

Underpinning means a support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall.