underbelly
Example Sentences
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“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
Because people like to say things like, “If I became a right-wing influencer I’d get so rich,” and while there is some truth to that, there is this underbelly of people with really marginal influence.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Everything points back in the direction of Angel Studios — or, really, the underbelly beneath it.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
His underbelly showed pale as paper through his fur.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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