underbelly
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While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, red stripe and white upper body.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
“There’s a real underbelly of this vintage game with rag houses getting access to bulk product overseas and letting people sort through it,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
It also exposed the AI boom’s underbelly: the grubby sidedeals, financial anxieties, short tempers and personal vendettas that have shaped modern technology every bit as much as the march toward machine consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Maybe it was the underbelly of all of the bravado and power-seeking—some desire to counter all the validation with the humiliation of knowing that, deep down, he’s just a revolting little worm.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
I was nearly six feet tall, pale as a frog’s underbelly, and had bright red hair.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Oseguera González’s counsel responded by telling jurors they should be skeptical of key witnesses “who have made that deal with the government” — an arrangement that he called “one of the underbellies of criminal justice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
In this cool forest damp is nurtured a fairyland of fungi, aglow in the dank underbellies of logs, nooks and crooks of branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
With creamy white underbellies and an unmistakable crown of shaggy feathers, a Philippine eagle makes a regal impression.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 28, 2021
The clouds that brooded over Knoxville on Thursday looked like 4-8 clouds, and some had dark underbellies, making them clearly 0-8-in-the-Southeastern Conference clouds.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2017
Thunder grumbled over the ocean and lightning lit the underbellies of the clouds, flashing from sea to sky and back again.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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