underbelly

The property market remains the soft underbelly of the U.S. economy, and the housing-start data echoed weakness in home-builder confidence earlier in the week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

From what we've seen so far in the two gameplay trailers, the story will follow the pair in a Bonnie and Clyde-esque adventure through the seedy underbelly of America after an "easy score goes wrong".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

Because people like to say things like, “If I became a right-wing influencer I’d get so rich,” and while there is some truth to that, there is this underbelly of people with really marginal influence.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

Not the underbelly, as certain old tales would have it.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Before Covid, biologists often blew on bats’ faces to get them to stop biting and on their underbellies to confirm their reproductive status.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

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

From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021

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