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underworld

noun as in criminal activity, element

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But in the space of a few weeks the attacks put some of the country's leading underworld figures and their associates back under the police spotlight.

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Cultural images of the underworld are bound by writers, and though Kuang introduces new elements, she adheres largely to their canon.

Thai police have also begun investigating powerful Cambodian business figures alleged to be linked to underworld gambling and scam centres, while trade worth billions of dollars a year has stopped.

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In a war for control of L.A.’s Armenian underworld, federal authorities say rival crews of gangsters engaged in a series of dramatic shootings and kidnappings across the San Fernando Valley.

The data came from French police who broke the encryption code to the service favoured by the criminal underworld.

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

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