underlying

In a sentence

Six example sentences with underlying, each labelled with its topic.

• The rash cleared within a week, but the doctors kept testing until they found the underlying condition that caused it.

  Medicine

• The fund's price barely moved all year, hiding an underlying shift from bonds into property that changed its risk entirely.

  Finance

• Two students with identical scores can have completely different underlying difficulties, which is why the diagnostic interview still matters.

  Psychology

• Monthly figures bounce around, but the underlying trend is clear: fewer people are joining the workforce each year.

  Economics

• The crash reports all looked different, but the underlying cause was one date function that failed every leap year.

  Technology

• The team was winning, but the underlying numbers, rebounds and shot quality, said the luck would run out by March.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains underlying. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• restrict
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• minor
• detect
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• clause
• legend
• simulation
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• scheduling
• indicator
• formulation