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a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream
a magazine article taking an insightful look at the underworld inhabited by street people
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The crime thriller Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson, a former baseball player who becomes enmeshed in the seedy underworld of 1990s New York.
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Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
After Carmine was killed in The Batman, Gotham’s criminal underworld has a major power vacuum to fill, and both Sofia and Oz have eyes on the throne.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
The film, set in a fictional underworld where ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, is produced by Taiwan’s Activator Co, Sony Pictures International Productions and several other local companies.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
The series and costumes simultaneously trace Joan’s life from a penniless single mother to a high-class thief that earns her the nickname of The Godmother in London’s criminal underworld.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
After Carmine was killed in The Batman, Gotham’s criminal underworld has a major power vacuum to fill, and both Sofia and Oz have eyes on the throne.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
The film, set in a fictional underworld where ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, is produced by Taiwan’s Activator Co, Sony Pictures International Productions and several other local companies.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
The series and costumes simultaneously trace Joan’s life from a penniless single mother to a high-class thief that earns her the nickname of The Godmother in London’s criminal underworld.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underworld
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This election might feel so stressful, completely overwhelming, as if our country is teetering on the edge of an abyss.Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Oct. 2024
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McDermott and Beane basically came in together, established a culture true to their vision and pulled the Bills out of their 17-year abyss.Tim Graham, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
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Below that is the Futures tour, tennis’s vast netherworld of more than 2,000 true prospects and hopeless dreamers.Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024
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Tells Real-Life Tales of the Country's Most Notorious Motorcycle Gang 'Dune: Part Two' Is Bigger, Bolder — and Yes, Even Better — Than Part One Lyons’ book also utilized a long, taped conversation with Kathy Bauer, the real-life Benny’s wife, as a dispatch from this dirty-fingernail netherworld.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
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Socialites who had only ever listened to Z100 and who never knew the depths of Black music were turning up to Bonecrusher and DMX or Luther Vandross and Stephanie Mills.Amy DuBois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
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Durin finally snapped to his senses in time to give his life to battle the beast and leave it trapped in the depths of the mine.Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
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Should their conditions worsen or improve, the end result is the same – promising an instant and irrevocable erasure of this demimonde forged from slumber.Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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The film’s writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, a connoisseur of Biblical violence and creator of cursed demimondes, likes to push viewers to the limit.Thomas Page, CNN, 21 June 2024
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“Underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underworld. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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