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underground

[uhn-der-ground, uhn-der-ground] / ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd, ˈʌn dərˌgraʊnd /




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However, the US could target tunnel entrances, communications systems, access roads, and other supporting infrastructure, Mahmoudian adds, which "could paralyse the facility's operations even if some of its deepest underground sections survived".

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

An underground nuclear reactor is coming to this Kansas town—and dividing locals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Ukraine's underground storage operator, Ukrtransgaz, presented earlier this year an analysis showing that Croatia's LNG terminal could provide the cheapest route to supply the country.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

The three main sources of water are rivers, reservoirs and from deep underground - groundwater.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

By day the Eagle was a bustling pharmacy, with Jews coming in not just for medications but to read the foreign and underground newspapers stocked by the sympathetic owner.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Glasgow and Budapest opened their undergrounds in 1896, as did Paris in 1900, New York in 1904, and Buenos Aires in 1913.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

This semester, Athey is teaching a class on subcultures and undergrounds at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2017

New York’s various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.

From New York Times Oct. 17, 2016

But he remained a name known primarily to those whose knowledge of the city’s music was steeped in various undergrounds.

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 2015

In the darkness, where at first, after so much sunlight, the little electric lamps seem to us scarcely more than glow-worms, we expected a certain amount of chilliness as in the undergrounds of our climate.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter




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