as in underworld
a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream
the shadowy netherworld of all-night raves
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Beginning his act while seated in the audience, with a cowboy hat obscuring his impossibly angular features, Gosling was in character as the woebegone Ken, a macho hunk doomed to play beta in the toy netherworld of Barbie.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Brown dwarfs exist in a kind of netherworld category between planets and stars.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
—Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
But Munch was a revolutionary Modernist in his portrayals of the Norwegian landscape, a shimmering netherworld of dramatic mountains, fjords, and surreal light.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Brown dwarfs exist in a kind of netherworld category between planets and stars.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
—Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
But Munch was a revolutionary Modernist in his portrayals of the Norwegian landscape, a shimmering netherworld of dramatic mountains, fjords, and surreal light.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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“Netherworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/netherworld. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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