as in underworld
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Noun
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Farrell played Oswald Cobb under layers of prosthetics, which didn’t stop him from delivering a surprisingly heartbreaking performance as Oz ascended to the top of Gotham’s criminal underworld, at great cost.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2025 -
Jabba’s death at the hands of Princess Leia has left a power vacuum in the criminal underworld once ruled over by the powerful Hutt cartel.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
10 Dec. 2024
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Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.—
Sofia Perez,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
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The same netherworld where Julien enjoyed torturing Cortland during his statue days.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This inferno killed at least 12 people, both civilians and firefighters.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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Most of all, the recurring visions of flames and matches that flicker through the depraved fever dreams of Wild at Heart (1990), a movie in which incandescent imagery looms so large that the opening credits unfold against an inferno of Halloween-orange flames.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the Cougars remain in at-large purgatory with rapidly diminishing opportunities to change their trajectory.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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At last look, the Blackhawks and White Sox were still in the early stages of their rebuilds, while the Bulls remained stuck in rebuild purgatory, waiting for a trade of Zach LaVine to kick things off.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Tartarus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tartarus. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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