as in underworld
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Noun
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Levon must pose as a drug dealer and infiltrate himself into this Chicago underworld populated by numerous stereotypical Russian Mafia types led by crime lord Wolo Kolisnyk (Jason Flemyng), and featuring his loose cannon son Dimi (Maximilian Osinski).—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025 -
The problem’s in the criminal underworld for people who are not recognised as being from a specific community.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
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The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With his wife trapped in the inferno, the protagonist must navigate competing priorities between saving lives and preventing a terrorist attack.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
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An advancing inferno may call for hasty felling of trees to create firebreaks.—
Albert C. Lin,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2025
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Clean energy projects get trapped in litigation purgatory, delaying or killing them outright for years.—
Rob Sisson and Danielle Franz,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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The field is increasingly engulfed in darkness, and—with the score tied—the players must choose between the reckless absurdity of playing a night game without lights and the eternal purgatory of leaving the final contest unresolved.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Tartarus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tartarus. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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