undergird

It undergirds authoritarianism, the search for perfectionism, the illusion of control.

NOAA’s work extends deep into the heart of the American economy — businesses use it to navigate risk and find opportunity — and it undergirds both American defense and geopolitical planning.

Some public historians, left reeling from DOGE-spearheaded cuts to federal humanities and arts funding, view the order as an affront to the scholarship and nuance that undergirds the institutions' evidence-based tellings of American history.

But the story’s many twists and hair’s-breadth escapes — its devolution into a Holocaust picaresque — lack the foundation of historical truth that undergirded the writer’s debut effort.

������ undergirds all this bracing commentary — one could cite many, many more examples — is a sober appreciation, to varying degrees, of Trump’s First Law: There is no law.