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underpinnings
/ ˈʌ²Ô»åəˌ±èɪ²Ôɪŋ³ú /
plural noun
- any supporting structure or system
Example Sentences
Neuroscientist Michael Platt is one of those lucky scientists who has been able to study them for over a decade, particularly with a focus on how their social environment affects their brains, how they make decisions, and the genetic underpinnings of their social behavior.
When I feel despair, and a kind of profound bottomless sadness, at the unchecked destruction of millions and millions of years of irreplaceable biodiversity going on right now, I take a little comfort imagining that from the smoking ruins of whatever remains once we've finally, foolishly removed the last biological underpinnings that keep us alive, complex life will likely re-emerge.
The study adds to growing research improving the biological underpinnings of Zika, which could eventually lead to a vaccine or treatment.
But now you’ve got a conservative movement that’s looking to undermine some of the underpinnings of defamation law, including the concept that you have to show actual malice if the plaintiff is a public figure.
The show leans hard into the game’s murder mystery literary underpinnings, and Cummings’ guests embrace their situation’s theatricality while taking each development a bit too personally.
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