as in underground
being, situated, or operating beneath the surface of the earth
a subterranean bunker that supposedly could withstand even an atomic blast
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Recent Examples of subterranean
Amenities include a playground, laundry room and 86 parking spaces across garage, subterranean and open formats.
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Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
After your subterranean romp, spend the night at Under Canvas’s Mount Rushmore outpost (50 minutes away), on the site of an original gold-mining settlement set among ponderosa pines.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Just a few blocks from the festival is this subterranean boite, situated underneath Little Sister, an always-excellent Dutch-Indonesian restaurant.
—Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But while the area has been evacuated, a gang of robbers led by James is drilling into the subterranean vault of a nearby bank.
—Carole Horst, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
After your subterranean romp, spend the night at Under Canvas’s Mount Rushmore outpost (50 minutes away), on the site of an original gold-mining settlement set among ponderosa pines.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Just a few blocks from the festival is this subterranean boite, situated underneath Little Sister, an always-excellent Dutch-Indonesian restaurant.
—Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But while the area has been evacuated, a gang of robbers led by James is drilling into the subterranean vault of a nearby bank.
—Carole Horst, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for subterranean
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subterranean
underground
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These allow three-dimensional imaging of underground structures instead of the two-dimensional models used in the past.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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Giving a whole new meaning to underground power, startup Deep Fission Nuclear has secured US$30 million in funding to install a micro-reactor in a mile-deep borehole by July 4, 2026 as part of the US Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Subterranean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subterranean. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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