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
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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
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It’s based on a new platform that will underpin a range of EVs.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2021
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Now, the duo has unveiled the very vessel that will underpin the nascent E1 series.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2021
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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
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Mungga smells of grain, yeast, and malt underpinned with grass and citrus zest.
—Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi, National Geographic, 19 June 2019
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His question takes the premise that has underpinned the boom and flips it on its head: What if grids need new gas plants for only half of their lives?
—Brian Eckhouse and Naureen Malik, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
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The end of the Cold War, which had underpinned the entire enterprise, might have been expected to bring a change.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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New voices, new ideas, but all underpinned by the same high standards.
—James Pearce, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
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In the hands of TikTok and Twitter, the joke and the frustrations that underpin it have been reduced down to just two little words.
—Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
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As discussed above, many people and process changes underpin that shift as well.
—Tolga Tarhan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
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But the ideals that underpinned our founding are eternal.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Oct. 2019
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This was complied with and underpinned the approach in Sudan.
—Adem K Abebe, Quartz Africa, 7 June 2019
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The use of drones has underpinned many of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
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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
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Fisker hasn't announced which platform will underpin the Ocean.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
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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
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That is underpinned by the fact Fulham have named the most unchanged starting line-ups of any Premier League side this season.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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The perception that any rate increases are a long way off has helped underpin the stock market's gains.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2019
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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
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Yet they are needed to underpin a system of daily contracts that extend out to the three-month contract.
—The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
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The juniper is still in charge, but underpinned by light, slightly bitter citrus notes.
—Tony Sachs, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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But what are the rules for good behavior on a ship, the unwritten etiquette that should underpin any journey?
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
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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
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The culinary trend is underpinned by two benign social ones.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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That’s the central insight underpinning Goodman’s new book, at least for me.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
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Which is one more piece of evidence that the cryptochrome protein might underpin the robins’ magnetic sense.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2021
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They were based on law, but experts say that Biden used executive authority underpinned by law on a scale that had never been seen before.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
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