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Six example sentences with underlie, each labelled with its topic.
Cheap freight and cheap credit underlie the low prices shoppers now expect, and both are quietly getting more expensive.
Economics
A few unproven axioms underlie the whole system, and Descartes knew that removing any one of them collapsed the rest.
Philosophy
The same folding rules underlie proteins as different as hemoglobin and the enzyme that lets a seedling digest starch.
Science
A few core beliefs underlie most of a person's daily habits, which is why changing one routine takes so much effort.
Psychology
A steady drone underlies the whole piece, and the melody above it never leaves that single note behind.
Music
Concrete piles underlie the tower, driven forty metres down to the bedrock that the marsh above conceals.
Architecture
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