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Example sentences for: underpinning

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The alliance with the Church served as the underpinning of regal authority.
These kinds of studies will further help identify the mechanisms underpinning the effect of CR or DR on longevity.
Prudie feels so much better knowing the subversive underpinning of that goofy greeting.
BioTkPerl was used in a number of applications, but most notably in this context it was the underpinning for the annotation tool Genotator [ 37].
When non-scientists misunderstand the science underpinning a business model, profits suffer.