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underworld

[uhn-der-wurld] / ˈʌn dərˌwɜrld /


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Ryan James Wedding, known in Mexican underworld circles as “Thor,” was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list with a $15 million bounty on his head.

From The Wall Street Journal

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon

They looked to me like guardians to the underworld.

From Literature

Time France's debut edition also includes an interview with US ambassador to France Charles Kushner, a report from Ukraine's Donbas region and an investigation into the art trafficking underworld, according to its table of contents.

From Barron's

There may be no better time for a schemer like Ashur to be resurrected from the underworld.

From Salon