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undercurrent
noun as in drift, pull
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While many are excited about it, he said, there’s also an undercurrent of competition.
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The sisters laugh raucously, but there's an undercurrent of pain.
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The Wolf of Wall Street actor explained that while he doesn't feel like there's a central message to the film, "there's an interesting undercurrent about extremism".
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With its Baroque intonations, the piano interlude participates in establishing the track’s nostalgic undercurrents.
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“All families are concerned with what happens next,” Fellowes says of the story’s thematic undercurrent.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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