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What is the noun for underpinning?

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underpinning
  1. A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall.
  2. (figuratively) A basis for something.
  3. (figuratively) Legs, more generally.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In 1941, high water damaged the building's underpinning.”
      “An important underpinning of this theory is Émile Durkheim's analysis of modern society and the rise of individualism.”
underpinner
  1. One who, or that which, underpins.
underpinnings
  1. plural of underpinning
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is concerned less with theoretical underpinnings and more with the ethics of process-based work.”
      “The author delves into the structural underpinnings of chronic underemployment and unemployment, and the minds of those affected.”
      “For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the strategy committed the United States to multilateralism.”
underpinners
  1. plural of underpinner
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