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Recent Examples of undergirdBy signaling a connection to these figures, Harris is aligning her campaign to the founding principles that undergird American politics.—Camille Davis / Made By History, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024 After all, the same constitutional order that undergirds America’s contemporary liberal democracy permitted nearly a century of authoritarianism in the Jim Crow South, the mass internment of Japanese Americans, and McCarthyism.—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Set in Canada, the U.S., and Europe during the Second World War, this historical novel explores the life of a Chinese Canadian man, Josiah Chang, whose romance with a white woman, Poppy, undergirds his drive to prove himself.—The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Many of us take for granted creative license and the freedom of expression that undergirds it.—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undergird
Poland, Spain, and Lithuania quickly responded to bolster Ukraine's position.
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Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Use your learnings to bolster your security controls and processes—installing new security systems, improving security monitoring, training staff, tightening network access controls, and adjusting your incident response, business continuity, and recovery plans.
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