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VERB
  1. lend moral support to
  2. make secure underneath
    undergird the ship

How To Use undergird In A Sentence

  • The distinctives of Reformed theology and practice are useful only to the degree that they undergird and clarify the gospel, the evangel.
  • Because Quakerism is a decentralized faith, Quakers don't have a common doctrine or creed, though the belief that there is "that of God in everyone" undergirds many Quaker traditions, such as opposition to war and concern for the least powerful. Eileen Flanagan: Quakers Advocate Living in 'Right Relationship' with Creation
  • Furthermore, as Sommers hammers at a variety of what she calls factual errors, she conveniently sidesteps an important assumption undergirding her attacks on liberal feminist scholars, which is that they have an agenda and she doesn't. "And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
  • Until there are some real human institutions undergirding their society, they need a semi-authoritarian center.
  • The church lent its ideological support to the state; the state undergirded the authority of the church with its secular power; neither interfered in the other's affairs.
  • Some are, some aren't, depending on the philosophical basis which undergird those theories.
  • Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information.
  • Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the reprehensible euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
  • The ties go way back and undergird the entire neocon movement and its traditional concern with Israeli affairs.
  • Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system. Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution
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