as in abyss
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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By excising Batman and his fantastical sway on Gotham from The Penguin, the city’s criminal underworld feels more grounded in the quotidian details of drug deals and power plays, in actual matters of life and death.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Driven by his instincts, Fok begins to dig deeper into the case, uncovering a labyrinthine conspiracy that threads through Hong Kong’s criminal underworld and its upper echelons of power.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
Convinced that these crimes are the work of domestic terrorists funding a violent uprising, Husk and his team plunge into the dark underworld of white supremacist extremism.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
In early 2000s New York City, a struggling filmmaker finds power and purpose in the criminal underworld of film piracy, before falling into a cat-and-mouse game with the FBI and studios hell-bent on stopping him.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Driven by his instincts, Fok begins to dig deeper into the case, uncovering a labyrinthine conspiracy that threads through Hong Kong’s criminal underworld and its upper echelons of power.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
Convinced that these crimes are the work of domestic terrorists funding a violent uprising, Husk and his team plunge into the dark underworld of white supremacist extremism.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
In early 2000s New York City, a struggling filmmaker finds power and purpose in the criminal underworld of film piracy, before falling into a cat-and-mouse game with the FBI and studios hell-bent on stopping him.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underworld
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The fact that frantic diplomatic officials and business leaders managed to convince Petro to turn back from the abyss highlights the degree to which the Colombian economy is dependent on exports to the United States.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2025
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And, while everyone else was distracted by pandemics and politics and TikTok, the cold, skeletal hand of time pulled the millennials into the abyss.—
Alex Baia,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The same netherworld where Julien enjoyed torturing Cortland during his statue days.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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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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Courtesy Kellie Carlson And the attack has left no fear of the ocean's depths.—
Morgan Chesky,
NBC News,
31 Dec. 2024
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Found in depths ranging from 600 to 6,000 feet, this predator thrives in the twilight and midnight zones, where sunlight is as scarce as food.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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The gumshoe’s exploits, punctuated with suspense, dark comedy and a motley cast unique to the demimonde of the Mexican capital, have been made into films and a Netflix series and translated into English and other languages.—
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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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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“Underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underworld. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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