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Example sentences for: underpinnings

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For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.
Prudie feels slightly ambivalent about the cloak-and-dagger underpinnings involved.
When an actress such as Patricia Arquette presents a blank face to the camera, it's really blank, but Pfeiffer's blankness can make you seasick with its sloshing, stormy 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.
Likewise, there is no mistaking the political underpinnings of Boyhood . There are cozy images of empire: John's obsession with cricket ("not a game ...