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go underground



VERB
hole up
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"We're not saying we should not go underground," he insisted.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Not so good for the screenwriters and true-crime podcasters who trade on our strange fascination with bad guys who go underground and stay there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Others may go underground or just leave the country altogether.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

With the Oklahoma City bombing and Timothy McVeigh, many militia movements go underground and become less publicly visible, and focus way less on sheriffs.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

‘An Elf will go underground and a Dwarf dare not!’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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