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Recent Examples of underpin
Those bits will underpin the new Scout Motors vehicles.
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Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Experts are worried the decadeslong trade ties that have underpinned the relationship between the world's two largest economies could be unraveling.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
The new tariffs — adding levies of 20 percent on the European Union, 34 percent on China and more — essentially negate the logic behind the global supply chains underpinning the fashion industry.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Apr. 2025
The move amounts to one of the biggest tax increases in modern U.S. history, disrupting the global supply chains that underpin a major swathe of the nation's economic activity, analysts said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
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Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
Experts are worried the decadeslong trade ties that have underpinned the relationship between the world's two largest economies could be unraveling.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
The new tariffs — adding levies of 20 percent on the European Union, 34 percent on China and more — essentially negate the logic behind the global supply chains underpinning the fashion industry.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Apr. 2025
The move amounts to one of the biggest tax increases in modern U.S. history, disrupting the global supply chains that underpin a major swathe of the nation's economic activity, analysts said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underpin
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Taking a modular approach, Kim said more batteries could be added in the future to sustain specific components, enabling them to live on through the cold lunar night.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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More flexible funding from donors is required to sustain this important work.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Loading media onto the watch, even basic offline maps, is such a hassle that even Apple has resigned itself to the fact that most people will end up carrying their phone instead.—
Adrienne So,
Wired News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Emma had on a high-visibility vest over a short puffer jacket and was carrying a cardboard tube.—
Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2025
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Survivors and community members at Florida State University came together to grieve and support each other at a vigil that drew thousands after two people were killed and more were injured in an April 17 campus shooting.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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This helps centers maximize resource recovery and supports the transition to a circular economy.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The only evidence against defendant [Weinstein] was the complainants' testimony, and the result of the court's rulings ... was to bolster their credibility and diminish defendant's character before the jury.—
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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Montana is one of 23 states, along with Puerto Rico, that are eligible for the NIH’s Institutional Development Award program, meant to bolster NIH funding in states that historically have received less investment.—
Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Underpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underpin. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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