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Synonyms for underlie
ˌʌn dərˈlaɪun·der·lie

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. underlieverb

    be or form the base for

  2. underlieverb

    lie underneath

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  1. List of paraphrases for "underlie":

    underpin

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  1. Priests Revealed in Tudor Mansion:

    We are focusing attention on a series of stone structures that underlie the standing brick buildings, we will be trying to date their construction and when they were demolished to make way for the current structures.

  2. Howard Sesso:

    Two key reasons underlie this.

  3. James Comey:

    To my mind it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a public and instead just becomes about intelligence porn, frankly, just pushing out information about sources and methods without regard to interest, without regard to the First Amendment values that normally underlie press reporting, and simply becomes a conduit for the Russian intelligence services or some other adversary of the United States.

  4. Michael Terman:

    We are confronting three main factors that can underlie depression: an internal clock that runs slower than 24 hours, late evening light exposure that adds physiological time and further slows the process, and a dark bedroom that disallows the morning light signal essential for achieving synchrony with local solar time.


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