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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sort of underlying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a foundation or basis for another concept or idea, often in a vague or non-specific manner.
Example: "There is a sort of underlying tension in the room that everyone seems to feel."
Alternatives: "a kind of fundamental" or "a type of hidden".
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It's funny, but there's a sort of underlying grimness to the humour that I'm not enjoying at all.
There's a sort of underlying sadness in both those pictures.
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But fundamentally, there is a sort of assumption underlying English reporting that corrupt foreigners know, deep down, that their Anglo-Saxon accusers are right, but simply ignore them because the spoils of wickedness are so shiny and valuable.The thing is, I think that hand-rubbing, stage-villain conscious wickedness is really very rare indeed.
A: Sort of.
Ginghina, living in obscurity in a provincial town, is a sort of humanistic genius whose underlying yearnings for a better world find their most concrete and specific form in his plans for soccer — and he's well aware of the large-scale societal implications of his project.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
The SE hypothesis was a simple conceptual framework that sought to redirect thinking about disease susceptibility towards a unifying molecular susceptibility structure that would aide in the search for peptides driving the T cell immune response underlying RA, a sort of Cinderella's slipper.
Barnard uses Jones' voice as an instrument, layering certain looped samples to create a sort of beatbox effect that pairs perfectly with the underlying track — a frenetic, balls-to-the-wall techno/trance hybrid that Barnard created himself.
Underlying all is the mind-body concept of chi, a sort of healing internal airflow.
Because the precise communication underlying WUS dependent signalling is still unknown, free diffusion represents a sort of 'maximum entropy choice'.
"A sort of blank".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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