underbelly
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“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
“He takes us inside the football factory and shows us the underbelly that sports writers never know, from the locker room to the high-end living,” Atkins notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
But no, it’s a storm petrel with its wide black wings, soft gray underbelly.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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
