How to Use underpin in a Sentence

underpin

verb

• 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
• 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
• New voices, new ideas, but all underpinned by the same high standards.
  — James Pearce, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
• 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
• As discussed above, many people and process changes underpin that shift as well.
  — Tolga Tarhan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• But the ideals that underpinned our founding are eternal.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The perception that any rate increases are a long way off has helped underpin the stock market's gains.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Yet they are needed to underpin a system of daily contracts that extend out to the three-month contract.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The juniper is still in charge, but underpinned by light, slightly bitter citrus notes.
  — Tony Sachs, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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 culinary trend is underpinned by two benign social ones.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The records in question underpin the criminal prosecution of Wood and Betts, which ended in plea deals this year.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Most great artists have a unifying theme—a philosophy that underpins their life experiences and anchors their body of work.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
• And its treasure trove of data that underpinned global analysis on food security – used by researchers around the world – has been pulled offline.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 9 Mar. 2025