Definition of "undergirded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of undergird. (verb)

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• "Indeed, it is harder to identify purely secular progressive movements in American history than to find progressive movements infused with deep religious commitment and undergirded by religious institutions."
• "Behind this is a stereotyped view of what groups actually get stereotyped: But there are millions of stereotypes out there - from place to place and culture to culture; and I suspect that many of them are undergirded by magical thinking - in the Middle East, in South Central, etc."
• "Rather, the issue is that while conservative foreign policy is undergirded by a clear ideological commitment to violence and nationalism, progressive foreign policy tends to be quite muddled."