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beneath

adverb as in in a lower place

Strong match

Weak match

preposition as in inferior

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The lure was quick cash, but beneath their bravado was something more predatory - boys as young as their early teens had been effectively groomed into crime.

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But there is still a worry that the official case numbers are merely the tip of the iceberg – and a fear of what may lie beneath the surface.

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The daisies beneath him are crying — unhappy to be driven on.

Other eyewitnesses said that chaos ensued, as people scattered in panic or tried to save the lives of people trapped beneath the rubble.

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A hot late-summer breeze blows across a Burbank parking lot as Lorde sits beneath a tattered canopy outside the rehearsal studio where she’s preparing for her latest world tour.

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

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