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 use of drones has underpinned many of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These videos are key to the psychological warfare that underpins this flare-up.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• The album brims with joy and righteous anger, and illuminates the communal ties that underpin both.
  — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• Nvidia is at the center of the AI boom, as its processors are key to training the large language models that underpin the technology.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
• The two sides agreed to extend the cease-fire underpinning hostage-prisoner exchanges that began on Friday.
  — WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• The company makes many of the critical chips that provide the computing power needed to run the models that underpin AI tools.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• Here, the Asian-American beauty reveals the products that underpin her skin-care routine and go-to summer makeup look.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 13 July 2023
• That strategy underpinned its economic success, but over time, the United States moved away from it.
  — Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• There was always an easy strength, a self-confident baritone underpinning, in his singing.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Much of the trial has focused on the potential for achieving the performance targets that underpin Mr. Musk’s pay package.
  — Rebecca Elliott and Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
• The allegations against Wade and Willis have been underpinned by a bitter divorce battle between Wade and his estranged wife.
  — Amy Gardnerand Holly Bailey The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
• The third thing is that all of this is underpinned by sustainability and the move towards carbon neutrality.
  — Time, 18 June 2023
• Open standards underpin open networks such as the internet.
  — Alex Salkever, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
• The country is best known, perhaps, as the only one in the world that uses the happiness of its people as a guiding principle to underpin its philosophy.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Even his efforts, though, were underpinned by a serious purpose.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• But the error—a belief that peak inflation will allow the Fed to ease after reaching peak rates early next year—continues to underpin bond, stock and futures prices.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• First and foremost, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza underpin China’s argument that the world is becoming ever more disorderly.
  — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
• The large language models underpinning this new technology are able to do this by training on vast troves of online data.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 11 July 2023
• It’s one of the downsides of trying to use a system that was created when the biggest competition was horses to underpin modern commerce.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• But those same methods won’t work for more complex models such as most of the deep learning systems that underpin today’s generative A.I. boom.
  — Stephen Pastis, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Met Office’s predictions underpin weather forecasts across the country and beyond.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The expansion is driven by a pickup in domestic spending and underpinned by a steady flow of foreign financial aid.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• On Monday, the two auto makers announced a shake-up of the cross-shareholdings that underpin their beleaguered global alliance.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• With less to underpin the earth, the Brownwood subdivision, home to oil executives and their families, started to sink.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2023
• This urban form was underpinned by the hegemony of U.S. power, which secured a global market and culture that stressed free enterprise.
  — Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024