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Recent Examples of under
Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Johnston wrote that the Bright Futures Fund was brought into the diocesan accounting system and was under the regular oversight of its finance office.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2025
PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In a city like Tijuana, where law enforcement is already under-resourced and outgunned, this new aerial threat tilts the balance even further toward the cartels.
—Tania Navarro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Or consider shortening your get-ready time in the morning with our preferred hot air brush and the sheer concealer that brightens under-eyes.
—Madison Yauger, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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Preposition
The Arizona Cardinals will continue to have Jacoby Brissett play under center — at least for the next four weeks.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Johnston wrote that the Bright Futures Fund was brought into the diocesan accounting system and was under the regular oversight of its finance office.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
No under-extrusion occurred despite the filament’s softness.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In a city like Tijuana, where law enforcement is already under-resourced and outgunned, this new aerial threat tilts the balance even further toward the cartels.
—Tania Navarro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Phones, however, only place third in Pew’s list of devices that parents report 12-and-under kids ever using or interacting with.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Or consider shortening your get-ready time in the morning with our preferred hot air brush and the sheer concealer that brightens under-eyes.
—Madison Yauger, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for under
Preposition
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As ever, beneath the bombast, the true picture is more nuanced.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Farmers are bringing back cabruca, a traditional system where cocoa trees grow beneath a canopy of native species.—
Kaveh Zahedi,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Bodysuits, oversize blazers worn as dresses, and sheer fabrics that reveal the lingerie underneath are all common sights.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025
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Directly underneath lies an open-air beach club with fold-down platforms that open to create roughly 645 square feet of space suspended above the water.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The experts shared the below strategies for slowing down immune system aging.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Pro Football Focus ranks Clark as a below-average interior defender in 2025 -- 68th out of 128 players who have seen enough snaps to qualify at the position.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 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 team will be without star quarterback Jayden Daniels, who is out with a low-grade hamstring strain.—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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His first symptoms manifested in low-grade fevers and transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM), a rash that affects some infants with Down syndrome, per the National Cancer Institute.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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They were upset by both the Giants in Week 4, when he was limited to 10 snaps, and the Commanders in Week 5 (to say nothing of their narrow Week 6 win over the lowly Dolphins or their 38-24 loss to the Colts in Week 7).—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mainstream society, generally intent on grooming doctors, lawyers, accountants, scientists, engineers, and computer coders, perceived a student learning a working-class skilled trade as somehow lowly, poorly compensated, a second-class citizen.—
Stephen Tave,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Theories range from the Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The progressive Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy found last year that California families in the bottom 80% of the income scale — those having annual incomes of $145,900 or less — have overall tax rates near the national average.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Sauls confirms the hacksaw kill — where Art sawed someone in half from her nether regions — will appear, along with new kills that resulted from working with director Damien Leone.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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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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“Under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/under. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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