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underpinnings

/ ˈʌԻəˌɪɪŋ /

plural noun

  1. any supporting structure or system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Neuroscientist Michael Platt is one of those lucky scientists who has been able to study them for over a decade, particularly with a focus on how their social environment affects their brains, how they make decisions, and the genetic underpinnings of their social behavior.

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When I feel despair, and a kind of profound bottomless sadness, at the unchecked destruction of millions and millions of years of irreplaceable biodiversity going on right now, I take a little comfort imagining that from the smoking ruins of whatever remains once we've finally, foolishly removed the last biological underpinnings that keep us alive, complex life will likely re-emerge.

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The study adds to growing research improving the biological underpinnings of Zika, which could eventually lead to a vaccine or treatment.

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But now you’ve got a conservative movement that’s looking to undermine some of the underpinnings of defamation law, including the concept that you have to show actual malice if the plaintiff is a public figure.

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The show leans hard into the game’s murder mystery literary underpinnings, and Cummings’ guests embrace their situation’s theatricality while taking each development a bit too personally.

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