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underbelly

[uhn-der-bel-ee] / ˈʌn dərˌbɛl i /




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“Showing your underbelly in that kind of environment is very unappealing,” says Panio Gianopoulos, a writer and editor in Westchester County, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, thin red stripe and blue upper body.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

From what we've seen so far in the two gameplay trailers, the story will follow the pair in a Bonnie and Clyde-esque adventure through the seedy underbelly of America after an "easy score goes wrong".

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

Because people like to say things like, “If I became a right-wing influencer I’d get so rich,” and while there is some truth to that, there is this underbelly of people with really marginal influence.

From Slate May 7, 2026

An odd patchworked creature, his fur was an ashen hue with blots of grey and light-brown-flecked white on the underbelly.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Oseguera González’s counsel responded by telling jurors they should be skeptical of key witnesses “who have made that deal with the government” — an arrangement that he called “one of the underbellies of criminal justice.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2024

With creamy white underbellies and an unmistakable crown of shaggy feathers, a Philippine eagle makes a regal impression.

From National Geographic Jan. 28, 2021

The clouds that brooded over Knoxville on Thursday looked like 4-8 clouds, and some had dark underbellies, making them clearly 0-8-in-the-Southeastern Conference clouds.

From Washington Post Dec. 8, 2017

House mice have solid colors, but deer mice range from gray to reddish brown, with white on their underbellies and sides of their tails.

From Seattle Times Aug. 31, 2012

Thunder grumbled over the ocean and lightning lit the underbellies of the clouds, flashing from sea to sky and back again.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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