the underground

noun

: a group of people who secretly work to oppose or overthrow a government

Examples of the underground in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Attendees to the Threads of Freedom event will learn the basics of sewing, the history of the underground railroad and hear from community activists. Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2024 Hamas’s use of underground structures is more akin to how states, rather than nonstate actors, have traditionally used the underground. Daphné Richemond-Barak, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2024 Albini’s raw brand of hard, edgy and noisy analog production helped define an era of music that brought the underground into the mainstream. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024 At heart a poet, Sinclair was also a music journalist and became a force in the underground press movement, publishing the Warren-Forest Sun, eventually moving it to Ann Arbor. Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the underground 

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“The underground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20underground. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.

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