underground
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There are about 547 miles of trunk line underground across the city and 6,780 miles of distribution pipes, or main lines, in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In February, it announced a new project to create an underground loop in Dubai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The sport reached a peak of popularity in the 19th Century, but went underground after it was banned in the UK in 2005.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
In recent months, he ventured underground, sleeping in New York City’s subway tunnels, according to his half-sister, who requested anonymity to speak freely about her younger brother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Autumn, Ama, Woo, and I go tumbling down, into the underground … into an even deeper level of Asamando.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Glasgow and Budapest opened their undergrounds in 1896, as did Paris in 1900, New York in 1904, and Buenos Aires in 1913.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
This semester, Athey is teaching a class on subcultures and undergrounds at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2017
New York’s various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2016
But he remained a name known primarily to those whose knowledge of the city’s music was steeped in various undergrounds.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2015
In the darkness, where at first, after so much sunlight, the little electric lamps seem to us scarcely more than glow-worms, we expected a certain amount of chilliness as in the undergrounds of our climate.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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