going underground

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And when I was going underground here and looking all around me, I was like, ‘I really am a professional athlete.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2025

Frances describes her time after leaving Harrods as "going underground and shutting myself down".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

Among the elite units tasked with going underground is Yahalom, specialist commandos from Israel's Combat Engineering Corps known as the "weasels", who specialise in finding, clearing and destroying the tunnels.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

Women soon found themselves excluded from the childbirth process, and abortion going underground.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

From a new hiding place, he spoke by phone to Charlie Nesson, a lawyer he’d hired before going underground.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin