underground
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Construction of the underground and above ground portions of US President Donald Trump's White House ballroom will be allowed to continue, an appeals court has ruled.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Woods developed methods for routing electrical power underground, helping to establish the foundations of what later became known as the third-rail system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Still, it is unclear how organized the underground railroad heading to Mexico truly was, the Associated Press reported in 2020, with archives destroyed in a fire and sites along the path abandoned.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The Kestrel mine, located in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, is one of the largest underground metallurgical-coal operations in production in Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
A wild olive tree marked the end of the thicket, which must have been fed from an underground tributary of the Tarim River.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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