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Example sentences for: underpinnings

How can you use “underpinnings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Prudie feels slightly ambivalent about the cloak-and-dagger underpinnings involved.
For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.
As attitudes towards fisheries continue to change, increased understanding of the ecological underpinnings should help strike a more informed balance between fisheries' conservation and production.
A committed relationship between twentysomethings would, of course, have different underpinnings than one between middle-aged people who have had, perhaps, a marriage or two under their belts.
Mental disorders should not be considered "diseases," though many may have some biological underpinnings.