underbelly

With all the talk of Roth IRAs and loans and promises, it’s too easy to overlook turning this deal over and looking at the underbelly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Winer was his guide to the political underbelly, Kao said.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

“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

“There’s a real underbelly of this vintage game with rag houses getting access to bulk product overseas and letting people sort through it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

That’s what you see, Mariam jo, he had said, the dark in their underbelly.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Before Covid, biologists often blew on bats’ faces to get them to stop biting and on their underbellies to confirm their reproductive status.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

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

From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021

But its high-profile status and historical willingness to turn a blind eye to the sources of its funding offers a vivid example of these deals’ underbellies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2018

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