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Recent Examples of aboveground
The song first became a graveyard (and aboveground) smash in 1962, ruling for two weeks leading up to that Halloween.
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Gary Trust, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
After frost has killed the aboveground vegetation, cut back cannas and dahlias and dig them.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
The officials decided to delay the town’s aboveground reconstruction and instead put all of their efforts into a regional underground school that would accommodate 450 students from 18 nearby hamlets.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Extending blast simulation to underground effects The team is extending VC BlastProtect, a 3D city-model simulation first developed under the SIRIUS project, which has modelled aboveground blast waves and the flight of bomb fragments while accounting for surrounding infrastructure.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
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Gary Trust, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
After frost has killed the aboveground vegetation, cut back cannas and dahlias and dig them.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
The officials decided to delay the town’s aboveground reconstruction and instead put all of their efforts into a regional underground school that would accommodate 450 students from 18 nearby hamlets.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Extending blast simulation to underground effects The team is extending VC BlastProtect, a 3D city-model simulation first developed under the SIRIUS project, which has modelled aboveground blast waves and the flight of bomb fragments while accounting for surrounding infrastructure.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aboveground
surface
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Audiences Were Never in One Place The shift toward multi-surface creation isn’t just happening on the creator side.—
Stephanie Hind,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2026
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Its capabilities include surveillance, intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, and special operations support, alongside traditional anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare roles.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aboveground. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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