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They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life.

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Despite its subterranean setting, it does not feel claustrophobic.

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The conditions are as unhygienic as can be imagined in a subterranean tunnel with no light, air, running water or sanitation.

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Operating from a Victorian mansion just steps from Hyde Park, the company has recently seen a surge of wealthy customers hoping to stuff gold into the hundreds of safe-deposit boxes in its subterranean, steel-encased vault.

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The terrorists livestreamed their own atrocities and dragged more than 250 hostages back to Gaza’s sprawling subterranean terror dungeons, where dozens remain to this day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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