underside
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The fire service also warned drivers not to park on dry grass as the underside of vehicles can reach over 400C.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Every humpback has a pattern on the underside of their tail -- or fluke -- that is unique "like a human fingerprint", Castro said.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Scientists discovered that the shape of the underside of the ice shelf strongly affects how seawater circulates below it.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Ajinomoto, the Japanese food company best known for commercializing monosodium glutamate, used its chemistry knowledge to make a specialized film used in the underside layer of a chip alongside T-glass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
But the pressure was too weak, so that instead the water slid soundlessly down the underside of the shell where opportunistic slime hung in dripping points, like stalactites in a limestone cave.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Analysis has shown Punk and Emo had smooth undersides, indicating they likely lived on the seabed.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Aescape has heated “hands,” which look like giant pads with touch points on their undersides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
More walnuts — this time sliced so that their intricate innards are revealed as crisp cross-sections — are attached to the undersides of the beveled-glass tops of coffee tables, like specimens captured on microscope slides.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
Certain species, like the pythons, have specialized muscles that connect their ribs directly to their skin, allowing them to use just the skin on their undersides to push against the ground and move forward.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
I walked home under gray clouds whose undersides had been shredded.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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