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An unwillingness to delay gratification underlies most of her problems.underlies = is the root cause
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What world view underlies the opinions she expressed?underlies = is the basis for
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A levy won't help since limestone underlies a thin layer of topsoil in the city.
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I stopped for a long time to let my nerves settle, then leaned back from my tools and stared up at the face above, searching for a hint of solid ice, for some variation in the underlying rock strata, for anything that would allow passage over the frosted slabs. (source)underlying = below the surface
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There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island. (source)underlay = form the base of
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You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives. (source)underlying = causing
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First, that complex systems like weather have an underlying order.† (source)
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This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.† (source)
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I just wanted us to be talking and joking comfortably, like we were on the couch together back home, but some tension underlay everything.† (source)
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I want you to find what you feel to be the principles that underlie true friendship, and I want you to be able to report to Mr. Hamilton an example of true friendship that demonstrates your principles.† (source)
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My friends, as you can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.† (source)
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Can you name a belief that underlies your actions?† (source)
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They learned about the extended family clans that underlay the town's social structure.† (source)
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It took a clear, meditative eye like my grandfather's to foresee that they would enlarge and multiply until they would be, not the Shimerdas' cornfields, or Mr. Bushy's, but the world's cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts, like the wheat crop of Russia, which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war.† (source)
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Understanding the principles underlying defensive magic.† (source)
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The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.† (source)
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