underpin
to prop up or support from below; strengthen, as by reinforcing a foundation.
to replace or strengthen the foundation of (a building or the like).
to furnish a foundation for; corroborate: The author's conclusions are underpinned by references to experimental findings.
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How to use underpin in a sentence
This year’s program focuses on the road ahead for the technology that underpins our lives and businesses, including AI, biomedicine, cloud, and cybersecurity.
Our world has hit an inflection point | Caroline da Cunha | September 2, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewChanges in the technology underpinning the system have allowed Google to double the warning time it is now providing, giving people detailed alerts up to 48 hours before flooding occurs.
Google bolsters its A.I.-enabled flood alerts for India and Bangladesh | Jeremy Kahn | September 1, 2020 | FortuneHe was also a key pioneer of the business model that helps underpin “commission-free” stock brokerage for everyday traders.
How Ponzi mastermind Bernie Madoff enabled the US retail trading boom | John Detrixhe | August 30, 2020 | QuartzThe idea underpinning the computer scientists’ proposal is that consumers’ digital data is a form of unpaid labor.
Business publications have the access, the context, and the duty to tease out the financial forces underpinning all of these problems.
It’s time for business journalism to break with its conservative past | Katherine Bell | July 16, 2020 | Quartz
It is also their pattern to ignore the political problems that underpin the bad military performances of our “good guys.”
Here's How to Dig Out of This 'Stupid Sh*t' U.S. Foreign Policy | Leslie H. Gelb | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd dangerous because the Treasury securities that comprise that credit underpin much of the operations of the American economy.
Republicans Who Threaten to Have U.S. Default on Debt Are Nihilists | Robert Shapiro | January 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSerious settlements had taken place, and rendered it necessary to underpin the walls.
Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles | Daniel Hack TukeThey found the hole in which Mrs. Higgs had stepped, and the pole which had been used to underpin the middle boards.
The Wharf by the Docks | Florence WardenWe underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives?
I resumed: Further we must underpin the runners and work up the earth herring-wise.
The Mercy of Allah | Hilaire BellocThere were laws upon laws, endeavours to underpin the framework of a decaying society.
British Dictionary definitions for underpin
/ (ˌʌndəˈpɪn) /
to support from beneath, esp by a prop, while avoiding damaging or weakening the superstructure: to underpin a wall
to give corroboration, strength, or support to
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