undertow
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But if Gilligan’s story and others are in conversation with the censorship and whitewashing tides that caught 2025 in its undertow, that can’t be helped.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025
Earlier this week, Gerwig said she is open to the idea, if she can find an "undertow" for the film.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024
Arpeggios glimmer around her; a boom-bap beat brings an undertow.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024
Or a raucous bass line hooks you like an undertow.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man’s float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality—talk, footsteps, slamming doors—which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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