below the line
Example Sentences
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But the prospect of a stretch without Tatum provided the perfect timing for the Celtics to duck below the line and clean up their finances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
"Seeing this is already intimidating if you are below the line."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
Universities have always had, and even embraced, the duty to draw the line between fact and fiction — to determine when an assertion or opinion falls below the line of intellectual acceptability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Angel City was below the line and upset Portland 5-1 on Sunday to clinch the first berth in the franchise’s two-year history.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Upsilon on the Rosetta stone and Herculanean rolls is like our Υ, all the strokes being of equal thickness and not running below the line: nor do they in Hyperides or in Codd.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener