from below

idiom

: from a lower place
I felt a draft from below.

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So here’s the situation: Reddick and Bowman both make the playoffs if there’s no new winner from below the cutoff line. Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025 The moon is etched with ridges and fractures, features that scientists suspect result from oceanic forces — like rising water or convection currents — pulling apart the ice from below. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 May 2025 Serious federal student loan delinquency, marked when someone fails to pay for 90 days, surged from below 1 percent in the first quarter last year, during the five-year reporting pause, to nearly 8 percent this year as reporting resumed, the New York Fed found. Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 13 May 2025 Building also aren’t castles, and though players could rain gunfire from an apartment, a tank blast could take it out or a blast from below could take them out. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for from below

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“From below.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20below. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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