underbelly

While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, red stripe and white upper body.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

It also exposed the AI boom’s underbelly: the grubby sidedeals, financial anxieties, short tempers and personal vendettas that have shaped modern technology every bit as much as the march toward machine consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Lane’s Willy is both a paternal tyrant and a wounded bear, growling if anyone interrupts him yet unable to conceal his soft underbelly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Maybe it was the underbelly of all of the bravado and power-seeking—some desire to counter all the validation with the humiliation of knowing that, deep down, he’s just a revolting little worm.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

Without pausing to think, he aimed high at the spider’s underbelly, as he had done with the skrewt, and shouted “Stupefy!” just as Cedric yelled the same thing.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Oseguera González’s counsel responded by telling jurors they should be skeptical of key witnesses “who have made that deal with the government” — an arrangement that he called “one of the underbellies of criminal justice.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

In this cool forest damp is nurtured a fairyland of fungi, aglow in the dank underbellies of logs, nooks and crooks of branches.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

With creamy white underbellies and an unmistakable crown of shaggy feathers, a Philippine eagle makes a regal impression.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021

The B-29s were flying so low that when he looked up, he could see the crimson flames from the ground reflected in the silvery metal underbellies of the aircraft.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2020

Thunder grumbled over the ocean and lightning lit the underbellies of the clouds, flashing from sea to sky and back again.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi