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Recent Examples of under
Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
At odds with everything we’re supposed to believe about football under Postecoglou, Tottenham’s Europa League triumph was built on the defenders.
—Elias Burke, New York Times, 28 May 2025
PC Magazine, 5 May 2025
Jim and Frank had to wedge themselves uncomfortably under and behind it.
—Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025
Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Best Day’s beers fit into the under 0.5% category, but certainly sit well in the craft brewing category as well.
—Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Preposition
In the nineteen-forties, Harlem twice elected a city councilman, Ben Davis, who was an avowed, card-carrying member of the Communist Party and ended up serving five years in prison under an anti-Communist law.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
At odds with everything we’re supposed to believe about football under Postecoglou, Tottenham’s Europa League triumph was built on the defenders.
—Elias Burke, New York Times, 28 May 2025
Adverb
For our 17-page test site, the process took under a minute, and the site looked just the same after the process.
—PC Magazine, 5 May 2025
Jim and Frank had to wedge themselves uncomfortably under and behind it.
—Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025
Adjective
Two stars on the under, but prop players remember: Emeka Egbuka (+155 for a touchdown) gets the ball in big spots for Ohio State.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Best Day’s beers fit into the under 0.5% category, but certainly sit well in the craft brewing category as well.
—Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for under
Preposition
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There’s good talent beneath the first team regulars.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
8 June 2025
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On the other end, a pair of soulless black eyes looked out beneath a headset of antennae that reminded me of … something.—
Mark Gauert,
Sun Sentinel,
8 June 2025
Adverb
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Looking at expanding where that connectivity takes place [starts with] something as simple as evaluating the state of our infrastructure all underneath: the state of our cabling infrastructure, our fiber backbones, all of that is one piece.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The researchers found that the icy outer shell will sublimate and the oceans underneath will evaporate.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The below image shows a sample storage node that can provide all-flash or hybrid SSD and HDD storage to support AI and HPC workloads with a global namespace and a common control and data plane.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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The winners on our list passed the below testing criteria with flying colors.—
Claire Sullivan,
Footwear News,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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And ultimately, the Supreme Court overruled those lower court rulings and did declare the embryos as children qualifying under the wrongful death statute.—
Dana Taylor,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2024
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Lower gas demand amid increasing supply has led to lower pump prices.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
19 June 2023
Adjective
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The five-year survival rate for low-grade appendix tumors is between 67 to 97 percent.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 June 2025
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No vaccine is perfect, the experts said, but the risk with the Covid vaccine is extremely small and the problems like a sore arm or a low-grade fever that some of his patients have experienced resolved quickly.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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What is inescapable is the lowly status women held in these aristocratic households.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
16 June 2025
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Last year’s Dodgers only had two starters - Gavin Stone and Tyler Glasnow - exceed the lowly total of 90 innings pitched during the regular season.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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The bottom half of the pole just needed to be attached to the top half, which already held the umbrella and the crank mechanism.—
Sandi Schwartz,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2025
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In a recent study by the American Bar Association, Florida ranks in the bottom tier of states with respect to legal aid representation for the low income population, with only 1.7 legal aid attorneys per 10,000 people.—
Jeffrey D. Harvey,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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Glycerin is a sugar alcohol that can serve as fuel for the microbes in your nether regions, in particular yeast.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
3 June 2025
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Conrad wraps the conversation by being incredibly disgusting about Bella’s nether regions.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
1 June 2025
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“Under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/under. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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