underground
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Europe’s underground natural-gas storage is about 75% full, and the continent will enter the coming winter with stocks below the nine-year average, according to the EU’s energy regulators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Though civilian life in the city never stopped, Bohackova said, it also carried on under the conditions of an active battlefield, with schools, theatres, kindergartens and hospitals moved underground.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Every October, societal outcasts and weirdos relegated to the underground are permitted passage back into the mainstream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Emissions occur at every stage, from extracting gas held underground, to processing, transmission and distribution.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
But I cry now—for the first time in years—in the underground corridor of the Ghanaian underworld, all while the ancestral spirit of my grandmother protects me from a trickster god.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-
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