from beneath

idiom

: from a place below or under (something)
She gazed at us from beneath the brim of her hat.

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But for too long, that carbon has come from the wrong places—dug up from beneath the Earth in the form of oil, gas, and coal. Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Thirsty data That Lake Mead’s worth of water that has disappeared from beneath the lower Colorado basin has gone largely to irrigating alfalfa and other food for cows, much of which is exported. Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025 That Lake Mead’s worth of water that has disappeared from beneath the lower Colorado basin has gone largely to irrigating alfalfa and other food for cows, much of which is exported. Mark Gongloff, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025 Yet, instead of protesting in the streets condemning Hamas’ sadistic butchery and demanding the terror group release its hostages and leave the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinian people may crawl out from beneath its rancid thumb, the American left focuses its ire on Israel instead. Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for from beneath

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“From beneath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20beneath. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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