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underground

[uhn-der-graund, uhn-der-graund] / ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd, ˈʌn dərˌgraʊnd /




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Europe’s underground natural-gas storage is about 75% full, and the continent will enter the coming winter with stocks below the nine-year average, according to the EU’s energy regulators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Though civilian life in the city never stopped, Bohackova said, it also carried on under the conditions of an active battlefield, with schools, theatres, kindergartens and hospitals moved underground.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Under the immense pressures deep underground, this magma could absorb substantial quantities of excess oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

It could slither down craters, squeeze into crevices, and even push its way underground in search of answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

But I hung back, gazing desperately at Father, Willem, Peter, all our brave underground workers.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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 William Peter Baines


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