How to Use underlying in a Sentence

underlying

adjective

• The funds are tied to an underlying index, such as the S&P 500.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
• The funds are tied to an underlying index, such as the S&P 500.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• But the underlying problem seems to be the food itself.
  — Jay Root, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The good news is that there are a handful of ways to address it, depending on the underlying cause.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Their underlying numbers, though, aren’t as strong as Ryan and Gray’s.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2022
• Jack had no underlying conditions and was in good health, and at first the symptoms looked a lot like a common cold.
  — Kathleen Felton, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
• As well as some sugary snacks to soothe the underlying guilt that comes with sharing your children.
  — Jemima Kirke, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
• The underlying goal is to help make the American system work as it was designed.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• Most of the deaths were among the elderly, the very young or those with underlying medical problems.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• Other times, the underlying cause may be a bony structure.
  — Meredith Butulis, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2022
• Deep burns can destroy the underlying nerve endings and the body goes into shock, limiting the level of pain — in the initial stages.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Jensen wants to become a physician in part to help work on some of the underlying structural reasons people in her tribe die so young.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 21 July 2022
• Yes, there is an underlying look, but goth is so much more than an aesthetic.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
• The underlying issue seems to be the lack of communication between the safeties and the corners.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2022
• The underlying cause of TN, when it can be found, is most commonly compression of the nerve, usually in the brainstem where the nerve root starts.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
• The judge also delayed by six months the jury trial in the underlying case that was set to begin Tuesday.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
• The steep rise in interest rates last year may have helped mask any underlying malaise in the Swiss financial system.
  — Bastian Benrath, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
• The city argued in court filings that Jones’ claims lacked merit because the city didn’t cause Jones to lose his right to bring an underlying claim against Paradis and the city in state court.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• The tendon is then split to expose underlying tissues and bone.
  — Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
• Black is simply a dark version of another color, so look at the lighter shades on the paint strip to determine the underlying hue.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Nov. 2023
• Many scientists sought to treat the underlying cause of the disease by trying to repair the faulty gene, according to the foundation.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• There doesn’t have to be a grand underlying purpose that guides you along your breathing living journey.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• Love: But the underlying factor in all of this might not have anything to do with romantic connections at all.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• The microrobots would probe through a moon’s frozen crust into underlying oceans.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022
• The Carter family filed the underlying lawsuit in June 2015.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
• Dann said the underlying question of whether DeWine had the power to block this money was already answered by the appeals court, which found DeWine overstepped.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2022
• On the other hand, the court took the unusual step of agreeing to hear oral arguments in the case and decide the underlying legal issues raised by the states' lawsuits.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• Her legs are still crosshatched with angry red scars, sunken in places where the underlying tissue was destroyed and patched together with the bumpy, coarse skin that grows over a graft.
  — Jerry Adler, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2022
• Yes, there are many challenges and struggles, but there is no underlying estrangement here — and this is never in doubt.
  — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 13 May 2024
• The underlying issue has not been fitness or consequential injuries, but adjusting to the sharpness required of Emery’s training.
  — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025