underground
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His audience has grown well beyond the underground following he garnered in his early experiments with electronic production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
With prices at Myanmar's petrol pumps nearly double what they were in late February, the underground "black gold" is an increasingly coveted prize of war.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
Carved deep underground, the five caverns contain chambers as tall as nine-story buildings and longer than three American football fields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Such a chamber would form part of an underground volcanic system that could continue releasing gases even without producing visible eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
In the corner of the ogres’ underground bunker, my teleporter awaited its ultimate mission: returning me to Lyttyrboks.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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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
New York’s various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 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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