underground
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The coal waste had been piled high on the side of Mynydd Merthyr – above Aberfan – for years, even though there were numerous underground springs below.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Within minutes, all the school's 130 children were carrying on with their classes underground.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
The city council stepped in and overturned the denial after Damac confirmed the tanks would be underground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
On the surface, the flames are out – but underground, smouldering blazes continue to burn through a deep understory of carbon, vegetation and peat.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Engineers had built an underground ice wall around the plant in 2016.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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