underbelly
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Winer was his guide to the political underbelly, Kao said.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The property market remains the soft underbelly of the U.S. economy, and the housing-start data echoed weakness in home-builder confidence earlier in the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Lake recently ended his string of open-air summer concerts, where he transformed spots like the underbelly of a New York bridge, Chicago’s Navy Pier and L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
I was Zu and Zu was in a small bed, staring up at the underbelly of a brown mattress.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
In this cool forest damp is nurtured a fairyland of fungi, aglow in the dank underbellies of logs, nooks and crooks of branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
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
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
