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underground

[uhn-der-graund, uhn-der-graund] / ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd, ˈʌn dərˌgraʊnd /




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The company has said it will continue to manage the landfill, including addressing the smoldering underground fire “that is affecting the northwest corner of the landfill, as well as closure and post-closure activities.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Measuring what remains allows scientists to estimate how long the rocks have been underground.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The campaign begins with a surprise invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces, who deploy paratroopers and infiltrate through an underground tunnel to catch South Korean and US troops off guard.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

With drones dominating the sky, Ukraine and Russia are going head-to-head underground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

By day the Eagle was a bustling pharmacy, with Jews coming in not just for medications but to read the foreign and underground newspapers stocked by the sympathetic owner.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

Joining her in conversation is Luc Sante, a critic known for his journalistic exploration of urban undergrounds; his most recent book, “The Other Paris,” gives similar treatment to the City of Light.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 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

In the darkness, where at first, after so much sunlight, the little electric lamps seem to us scarcely more than glow-worms, we expected a certain amount of chilliness as in the undergrounds of our climate.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines


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