underground
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The speed of subsequent declines in precious-metals markets stretching from central banks to underground vaults to Wall Street trading desks caught investors off guard.
“Get away!” he would say, and he would chase off the cats, the birds, the occasional mouse or rat on the underground.
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Langer led everyone to an underground room, up to a table on which bulky shapes sat beneath a cloth.
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Analysts and officials say that Tehran has been rebuilding its launchers and recovering the ones put out of action when Israel bombed the entrances to underground missile storage facilities.
A Pentagon assessment on China’s military power concluded that the dismissals were possibly connected to fraud cases involving the construction of underground silos for ballistic missiles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.