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underground

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noun

as in resistance
a secret organization in a conquered country fighting against enemy forces joined the underground while still a teenager

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underground

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adverb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of underground
Adjective
The 10-acre site includes rooms, tunnels, and grottos where citrus trees and grapevines grow underground. Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025 Operations were underway Thursday morning to rescue three miners who have been trapped underground for two days after a collapse at a mine in northwest British Columbia, Canada. New York Times, 24 July 2025
Noun
But there were problems with the roundabout location such as underground utilities that would complicate the move. John Tuohy, IndyStar, 14 Aug. 2025 Members of the Edinburg Fire Department rescue a man trapped in an underground septic tank on a rural property in Texas. Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
Knowing the travel speed of the seismic waves and timing their arrival along an array of 600 seismometers, the researchers collected a vast quantity of data on Yellowstone’s underground. David Bressan, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 In making that case, the mayor has touted how some crime categories have trended downward under his leadership, including underground. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for underground
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underground
Adjective
  • Party leaders could reveal what their rivals were cooking up and reporters could penetrate clandestine deal-making through sources.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist, then coined the term Operation Choke Point 2.0, referring to an Obama administration clandestine operation to debank undesirable industries including firearms dealers and payday lenders in the early 2010s.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The story took an unexpected twist in 2011, when police discovered a network of subterranean shipping containers at the landfill being used to grow cannabis.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • These drones, mounted with advanced magnetometry and radiometry, can detect subterranean anomalies.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Even in the face of resistance, including instances where riders received messages warning that linking their account to a third-party app could risk deactivation, Obi has continued to grow, underscoring consumer demand for rideshare transparency.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • For years, DeMarco has held fast to a salty ethos of self-reliance that includes resistance to the notion of scaling up.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • He is aided by Yasir Abbas, a weapons specialist; Raghuveer Singh, a sniper who served in Kashmir and Tawang; Uday Bhan, an explosives expert; and Sukhbir Singh, an Indian agent undercover in Pakistan posing as a Karachi stockbroker.
    Time, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Wednesday’s hearing before Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins in downtown Minneapolis focused on several motions from Eichorn, including one to drop the charges and for the defense to be able to call the undercover officer who posed as a 17-year-old girl to testify.
    Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In it, deaf canteen employee Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis) lands an under-the-table gig as a covert lip reader for the police and finagles her way into the apex of an upcoming heist operation.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Reports have long suggested that Iran has increasingly engaged in covert malign behavior to target foreign citizens.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Webb Institute Webb Institute Source: Webb Institute Founded by the shipbuilder William Webb, this small, private college in Glen Cove, New York specializes in naval architecture and marine engineering.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2025
  • As stated in the complaint, the NCAA is a private organization that issued a bigoted policy.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Underground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underground. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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