Underlies
[,ʌndə'laiz]
Examples
- America does not play with ideas; generous speculation is regarded as insincere, and shunned as if it might endanger the optimism which underlies success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We look at the great picture and we admire the genius of the artist, but how rarely we realize the no less wonderful patience, the no less wonderful struggle that underlies what we see. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One motive was the need of a measurement of time, the same motive as underlies the common interest in the calendar and almanac. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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