as in resistances
a secret organization in a conquered country fighting against enemy forces
joined the underground while still a teenager
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resistances
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Thornton’s latest work has the potential to reach more audiences precisely because of the Huckleberry Finn-like spirit of its Kid and Max saga, giving more folks the opportunity to learn about colonialist histories and indigenous resistances in the lands down under.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2026 -
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 June 2025
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“Undergrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergrounds. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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