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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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Recent Examples of underworld
With no money, no allies, and nowhere to turn, Gloria is forced to flee and enter the dangerous underworld of money laundering.
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Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
While not much is known about the film’s genre or plot, it’s said to follow a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
Living within, and the protector of this underworld, was Chaac, the god of rain, fertility and agriculture.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
While not much is known about the film’s genre or plot, it’s said to follow a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
Living within, and the protector of this underworld, was Chaac, the god of rain, fertility and agriculture.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Each helicopter in the distance, each blood-curdling howl, each suspenseful dose of dissonance serves to intensify the film’s mental burden, creating a gut-wrenching abyss of mounting despair that nods to the era, 1978, when Chile was floundering under the hushed state violence of Augusto Pinochet.Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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So what if her husband, Bill, is hovering on the edge of the abyss of Alzheimer’s?Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 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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In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, when large gatherings still weren’t happening, Kelly wanted to do something to bring his neighbors some holiday fun.Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Capable of descending to depths of 328 feet, it is powered by a diesel-electric propulsion system that can silently propel the vessel 100 nautical miles on batteries alone.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 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 5 Jan. 2025.
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