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Recent Examples of underneath
Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
Moss wore a black, semi-sheer polka-dot blouse featuring delicate, dotted-mesh fabric that revealed a glimpse of skin underneath.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 9 Mar. 2026
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Adverb
This doesn't mean everything needs to hover mid-air, but choosing furniture that shows a bit of floor underneath makes a surprising difference.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
Moss wore a black, semi-sheer polka-dot blouse featuring delicate, dotted-mesh fabric that revealed a glimpse of skin underneath.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
Preposition
Our shopping writer Julia Harrison likes to go one step further with a bed blanket underneath her duvet and above her sheets for a bit of weight and additional warmth.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underneath
Adverb
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Her parents’ bedroom still felt a little bit like church, hushed and dark, the air redolent with her mother’s perfume and hair spray, something mustier beneath.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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The restorer suspected a later 19th-century addition and carefully scraped back a corner to see what lay beneath.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And among those team-leading 72 carries on under-center formations, 20 of them came on third- or fourth-and-short.—
Sam McDowell
Updated March 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 Mar. 2026
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Kim finished with a 73 and was tied for sixth at 8-under, three behind Green and Lee.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
Preposition
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Oil prices fell again below the key $100 per barrel mark, the highest levels since 2022.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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The backstory Origins Astral is the sister hotel to Origins Floral, formerly known as Origins Lodge, which opened in 2018 just below Astral amid an 111-acre private rainforest overlooking Lake Nicaragua and situated between Miravalles and Tenorio Volcanoes.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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
Preposition
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On the counter-attack, Jesus Ferreira played a through ball from midfield to Rothrock near the right corner of the penalty box.—
Mercury News,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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On Thursday, Ayman Ghazali waited in his car outside Temple Israel, near Detroit, for about two hours with a rifle, commercial grade fireworks and jugs of liquid believed to be gasoline, before crashing into the building full of dozens of children, according to authorities.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But that’s exactly what’s happening, as more men are having neuromodulators injected into their nether regions.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
6 Mar. 2026
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This is the nether region of decadence.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Preposition
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The Extremadura site lies directly along the future H2Med hydrogen backbone.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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But even for longtime Border Patrol agents, who are trained at an academy in the deserts of New Mexico and stationed along the northern and southern borders, high-density cities are unfamiliar terrain.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Underneath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underneath. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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