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beneath

[bih-neeth, -neeth] / bɪˈniθ, -ˈnið /
ADVERB
in a lower place
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She’s engaging in a piece of phantasmagoric performance art with two raging megalomaniacs, suspecting humanity buried beneath their easygoing subterfuge.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

At Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary amphitheater, patients would be ushered beneath his impressive gaze; a “lithe man” with “steel-blue eyes,” Bell would press his fingertips together and peer magisterially over his eagle nose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

They used powerful airgun arrays to generate seismic pulses that traveled through the crust beneath the ocean floor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

On another late summer night in New York, under the red glow of the DJ booth and a canopy of globe string lights, the rooftop’s wooden floorboards dip beneath scores of platform heels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I’m about to dive in, shatter the perfect mirror beneath me, when my phone chimes his chime, and the relaxed confidence I was enjoying rushes out of me, like water rushing from a broken dam.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam


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