underground
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More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Iodized table salt is mined from underground deposits, processed to remove other minerals and fortified with iodine, which is important for thyroid health and proper hormone production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The NFL mountaintop this season sits 10 stories underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"If underground fire spreads and can no longer be controlled, the losses are enormous."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
And bit by bit, some underground living quarters, particularly those occupied by officers, were outfitted with such domestic comforts as electric lights, plank floors, fixed bedsteads, even carpets and pictures.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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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