and under
idiom
: and less (than a stated number, amount, or age)
selling earrings for ten dollars and under
Children aged five and under may enter the park for free.
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Larkin reassured Axelrod that PTC could keep subway conditions clean and under control.
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Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
He was born in 1898 to Jewish parents in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement, in what is now Lithuania; his family was poor and under threat from antisemitic violence.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
The Vikings are third in pressure rate through four games, per TruMedia, and under defensive coordinator Brian Flores, Minnesota runs one of the league’s most complicated blitz schemes.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
There was no real scaling facility in Germany that operated flexibly and under different climate conditions.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
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Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
He was born in 1898 to Jewish parents in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement, in what is now Lithuania; his family was poor and under threat from antisemitic violence.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
The Vikings are third in pressure rate through four games, per TruMedia, and under defensive coordinator Brian Flores, Minnesota runs one of the league’s most complicated blitz schemes.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
There was no real scaling facility in Germany that operated flexibly and under different climate conditions.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
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“And under.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20under. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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