underbelly
Example Sentences
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And while Congress, Europe and law may hold no terrors for our president, we all know ridicule hits him in his soft, white underbelly.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
But researchers now have what they believe to be the most complete, detailed map of that underbelly ever made.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
He produces his own short-form videos, feeding an internet audience hungry for unfiltered views of L.A.’s underbelly.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
But those earnings have an ugly underbelly: ever-bigger losses at the generative AI startups that spend big on chips and data centers supplied by the profitable public companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Ten wedge-shaped, high-definition video screens—as brilliant as those in Times Square—lined the underbelly of the dome like so many orange slices.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.