Underpin in a sentence as a verb

We're nowhere near having discovered all of the possible paradigms that might underpin a programming language, and new ideas should be welcomed.

Mosquitoes actually underpin a great number of relationships in nature.

They have strong ascetic traditions, at the extreme end ressembling nihilism, that underpin the faith and the recommended lifestyle.

It's far better to use the phrase "way out of line", which conveys the same meaning, but without the unthinking disregard for ********, theft of land, and institutionalized deceit that underpin most reservations.

* The commercial internet funding model of 1994 — advertising — is still influential, and its blind-spots underpin the attitude of the internet of things to our privacy and security.

Reasonable expectations of privacy underpin a huge number of functions of modern free society including journalism as noted above.

My point is simply that Western civilization, and the Enlightenment values that underpin it, faces an existential threat from religious fundamentalism.

Underpin definitions

verb

support from beneath

verb

support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"

See also: corroborate support