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Layers of history underlie most areas, and bones show up in the most inconvenient of building sites.

Now, in the first study of its kind, neuroscientists have pinpointed the brain circuits that underlie unrealistic optimism.

The concept of impulse control comes from a better understanding of the brain mechanisms that underlie self-restraint.

These two wonderful products of Newton's genius underlie the whole structure of modern astronomy and modern mechanics.

The line of her long underlie drawn sharp to check her tears, stopped her speaking.

It is now engaged in discovering the unseen causes which underlie the objective effects we notice in the physical world.

At all events, two quite distinct views seem to underlie the opening books of the Old Testament.

Similar fundamental factors underlie the last great cultural change.