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underworld

[uhn-der-wurld] / ˈʌn dərˌwɜrld /


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And Mylette Nora’s costumes artfully conjure both the underworld and the spiritual realm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The actor, who previously starred in Downton Abbey, also joked there was no difference between the period drama and the criminal underworld of The Gentlemen.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

But as the Lord of Darkness, the massively built ruler of the underworld in Ridley Scott’s underappreciated fantasy, Curry embodied a paradox.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The post-apocalyptic, jazzy New Orleans-style “Hadestown,” written by Anaïs Mitchell, is a mythical love story that follows young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice and the rulers of the underworld, Hades and Persephone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He waved them on, all squeaking as bats will in a cavern’s underworld, all flitting, flitting criss-cross in the dark if one falls and the rock-hung chain is broken.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“This latest action marks a significant escalation in the partnership between the cyber underworlds of these two nations,” Chainalysis said on its blog.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Globally, assorted gods have patrolled assorted underworlds for millennia, with death as their gloomy guard duty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

The “Uncut Gems” creators, Josh and Benny Safdie, are known for their merciless filmmaking style, made up of seedy underworlds and populated with first-time actors cast off the street.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

Ancient heroes who wished to grasp the truth of things had to pass through underworlds, or dwell in caves; sometimes, like Oedipus, they could see clearly only once they had been blinded.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2018

Even the autocratically ruled States, hitherto careless about the people in their underworlds, had to make advances to democracy, and give it some measure of the justice democracy threatened to deal to itself.

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell


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