Definition of "underpins" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underpin. (verb)

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• "Americans, with only 5% of the world’s population but with nearly 30% of the world’s wealth, tend to believe that scientific and technological leadership and the high standard of living it underpins is somehow the natural state of affairs."
• "Not many people talk about it much, but it just kind of underpins everything else we do, because our founders understood that a government big enough and powerful enough, centralized enough, is big enough and powerful enough to take anything away from you."
• "Not many people talk about it much but it just kind of underpins everything else that we do because our founders understood that a government big enough and powerful enough, centralize enough is big enough and powerful enough to take anything away from you."