Noun : to uncover the emotional underpinnings of an illness. From Dictionary.com.
I enjoyed that the supernatural threat had biblical underpinnings, which is always a plus in my book. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Any Given Doomsday, Lori Handeland] Reference
So you know, I like the excitement and I like the sort of people - to-people thing and the kind of underpinnings of it, the emotional underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2002] Reference
Are you brave enough to wear your "underpinnings" outdoors?. From Wordnik.com. [StyleList] Reference
Enter "underpinnings," says the show's costume designer Janie Bryant. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
With the move to 2007 it marked a whole new set of 'underpinnings' for the OS. From Wordnik.com. [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference
The neurobiological underpinnings are probably already there. From Wordnik.com. [The Sooner the Better] Reference
We're talking about a thriller with some historical underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Cloaked in Literature and Legend] Reference
For a while she studied the biological underpinnings of addiction. From Wordnik.com. [Claire Fraser] Reference
You will have cut the underpinnings from beneath the American dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Damned If You Don't] Reference
After all, Microsoft has made the underpinnings of the Internet Job One, from its. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Futurist: What's Ahead For 2003?] Reference
Clank, the presses begin again, and all afternoon I iron gentlemen's underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Again suggesting that this phone still hasn't shaken its business focused underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Kantra: Torch: The Best BlackBerry Ever, But Is it Enough?] Reference
They offer the underpinnings for an age of individual freedom and entrepreneurial creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations From Chairman G.] Reference
The course of this war has been a consistent scene of carnage with ever-changing underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Tomorrow, Tomorrow] Reference
We also share the view that the estate tax is grounded in powerful philosophical underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Bring Back the Estate Tax Now] Reference
The Oregon Senator is the first to break with the policy underpinnings of the bill he voted for. From Wordnik.com. [Wyden Defects on ObamaCare] Reference
Some friends tried to talk Pariseau out of taking on a show with such controversial underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversial Death Provokes a Controversial Play] Reference
Only now do we have a president who is willing to go at the underpinnings of the New Deal consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines, Online: The Bush Deal] Reference
O'Malley will benefit from the Democratic underpinnings in the state and a very well-funded campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Pennsylvania governor's race moves away from Democrats (and other ratings changes)] Reference
Unfortunately, we found basic Tahoe features and underpinnings uncompetitive with other full-sized SUVs. From Wordnik.com. [GM pulls the plug on Buick plug-in hybrid] Reference
But now he finds himself branded a wild-eyed heretic and a threat to the underpinnings of the entire economy. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight Of The Pc Era?] Reference
And scientists like Frank Booth, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, are examining the genetic underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Get Up And Get Moving] Reference
It's not a true addiction for most of us, but I think we'll see most of the emotional underpinnings are the same. From Wordnik.com. [Freaky Eaters Co-Host: "When Having Seconds Is Not Enough"] Reference
It's no accident that many of the underpinnings of Big Data came from the methods these very businesses developed. From Wordnik.com. [The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today] Reference
She had a new book out looking at the underpinnings of this movement, how it came about - it's very, very early on. From Wordnik.com. [Week In Politics: Primaries, Tea Party, Tax Cuts] Reference
American actors are physically alive, they look for psychological underpinnings, they have great energy and open minds. From Wordnik.com. [The Bard As Capitalist Tool] Reference
Weldon comes uncomfortably close to embracing some of the vague intellectual underpinnings of Kaddafi's weird ideology. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference
When the Business Roundtable came out for Cooper. it was regarded as proof that the plan has sound economic underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [Tempted By 'Clinton Lite'? Think Again.] Reference
When I was little and the vital underpinnings of the Cuban economy came from the Kremlin, my mother made me eat all my food. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: Where Economic Crisis Is A Decades Old Reality] Reference
We're talking about a real illness that has neurobiological underpinnings and that parents have to take as seriously as diabetes. From Wordnik.com. [Advice: 'It's Hard For Parents To Understand'] Reference
But beneath the sheet metal lies the underpinnings of Honda's sprightly Civic sedan, which creates an entirely new driving sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The Sport Utility Lite] Reference
Austin's moment in the Underground therefore inspired him to explore the neurological underpinnings of spiritual and mystical experience. From Wordnik.com. [Religion And The Brain] Reference
So even before it begins, the EPA effort is the subject of lawsuits, from plaintiffs questioning both its science and legal underpinnings. From Wordnik.com. [EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate] Reference
In both films with Sarif and Sheth, Ray excavates the underpinnings of culturally forced repression with varying degrees smoldering nuance. From Wordnik.com. [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference
The humanities address ambiguity, doubt, and skepticism — essential underpinnings in a complex and diverse society and a turbulent world. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste] Reference
While the disease, which tends to run in families, clearly has genetic underpinnings, it is overwhelmingly a condition of vascular decline. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Early News of Alzheimer's: Who Needs to Know?] Reference
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