underground
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Firefighters quickly put out the Lachman fire, but investigators testified at trial in June that embers continued to smolder underground, reigniting on Jan. 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Double Chooz detector sits underground about 400 meters from the facility's two reactor cores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Though not immediately visible to the naked eye, the ranch features a number of infrastructural updates, including automated irrigation and a fire suppression system that runs off an 18,000-gallon tank buried underground.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Many of projects involve a mix of underground and pylon supported cables, as well as sub-stations, converter stations, and equipment used in electricity transmission.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Beside them sat three underground workers who must have arrived since I had gone upstairs.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
"I'm never sure where these French undergrounds are going to land me."
From The Triflers by Frederick Orin Bartlett
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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