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undergird
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undergird
To secure, support, or strengthen a structure by tying together a number of individual elements below the soffit of the structure above it.


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Hayward described Reagan's political skill, his persistence, the conservative philosophy that undergirded his every action.
For example, many recent historians have emphasized the importance of protoracialist rationalizations that undergirded the brutal Tudor and Stuart subjugation of Ireland, but Kidd makes only passing reference to the bestialization of Celtic peoples (pp.
Spatial relations must be understood as undergirded by the originary relation described in the hadith.
 
 
 
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