How to Use underpin in a Sentence

underpin

verb
  • This underpins our view that DIS is a good stock to buy.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Mungga smells of grain, yeast, and malt underpinned with grass and citrus zest.
    Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi, National Geographic, 19 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • New voices, new ideas, but all underpinned by the same high standards.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The gravel underpinning for the road above was being washed away.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
  • For the next two years, Russia and Iran underpinned a scorched-earth campaign that broke the back of the resistance but laid waste to Syria.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • These are the narratives that have underpinned our lives.
    Longreads, 1 May 2018
  • But the ideals that underpinned our founding are eternal.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This was complied with and underpinned the approach in Sudan.
    Adem K Abebe, Quartz Africa, 7 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And while a showman behind the bar, Mr. Lek smiles and grows quiet when asked about the emotions underpinning his effort.
    Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • 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
  • For all the scarred experience that underpins much of the set, Monroe ends on upliftting notes that don’t feel forced.
    Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The super agents will be underpinned by agents assigned to handle specific tasks; where, currently, the company might have one agent handling scheduling for in-store employees and another tracking insights on real-time store inventory.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2025
  • What makes these emerging threats particularly severe is their direct assault on the critical infrastructure and services that underpin public safety.
    Dara Warn, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025

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