underbelly

Example Sentences

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Scotland have added new dimensions and layers to their game in recent times, but what has never been eradicated is their soft underbelly.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

But those earnings have an ugly underbelly: ever-bigger losses at the generative AI startups that spend big on chips and data centers supplied by the profitable public companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Martin wrote it, they said, to explore the underbelly of the “troubled teen” industry, particularly the camps that became popular in the 1990s, but in a way that is almost as semi-autobiographical as “Feel Good.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

In The Modern World tackles the disillusionment of getting to Hollywood and discovering its seedy underbelly.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

Our car is parked in the ship’s underbelly, and we are standing near the front of the boat, in the briny marine air.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day