go underground
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Not so good for the screenwriters and true-crime podcasters who trade on our strange fascination with bad guys who go underground and stay there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
With the Oklahoma City bombing and Timothy McVeigh, many militia movements go underground and become less publicly visible, and focus way less on sheriffs.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024
Others wanted the line to go underground to prevent disruptions.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021
The night before a planned protest, boycott, or stay-away, the leaders of the event would go underground in order to foil the police swoop that inevitably took place.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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