underground
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The lake has dried up due to a combination of factors, including geological fissures that drain water underground, below-average rainfall and repeated heatwaves.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Why do you think it declined, or kind of went underground?
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Evidence supporting that interpretation has come from drill cores -- long cylinders of solid rock pulled from deep underground -- recovered from ancient marine sediments in Karelia, Russia, and the Francevillian Basin in Gabon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
If this El Niño brings major storms, the L.A. area could take in even more water underground, enabling cities to pump it out later to deliver to taps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
She recognizes him immediately—she’d seen him go underground behind the Engineering Building.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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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