underbelly
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Maybe you’re craving another doc that will turn itself inside-out, revealing an underbelly of broken mirrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
With all the talk of Roth IRAs and loans and promises, it’s too easy to overlook turning this deal over and looking at the underbelly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
That wicket exposed the tender underbelly of Essex's batting and revived fears of a battle against relegation in the run-in to the Division One season.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Showing your underbelly in that kind of environment is very unappealing,” says Panio Gianopoulos, a writer and editor in Westchester County, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Instead, we steered clear of the old residential neighborhoods bordering the Levee and headed deeper into the vice district’s underbelly.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
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 clouds that brooded over Knoxville on Thursday looked like 4-8 clouds, and some had dark underbellies, making them clearly 0-8-in-the-Southeastern Conference clouds.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2017
They reached well over a mile above the ground, nearly high enough to scrape the underbellies of the clouds.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2013
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
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