as in underground
being, situated, or operating beneath the surface of the earth
a subterranean bunker that supposedly could withstand even an atomic blast
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Recent Examples of subterranean
Despite its subterranean location, natural light filters in through strategic openings, ensuring the space feels bright and inviting.
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Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
The nations are rehearsing realistic combat operations on countering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's hidden military installations and key subterranean facilities.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Where The Substance is engaged in surfaces, bolstered by tremendous prosthetic work and special effects, A Different Man plunges into the murky depths of its characters, rendering the fallout of its lead character’s transformation as far more subterranean.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
Local residents dug them by hand out of the terrain’s red basaltic soil, resulting in an approximately 6,000-foot-long network of rooms and passageways that existed on three subterranean levels, ranging from 33 to 75 feet below ground.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
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Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
The nations are rehearsing realistic combat operations on countering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's hidden military installations and key subterranean facilities.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Where The Substance is engaged in surfaces, bolstered by tremendous prosthetic work and special effects, A Different Man plunges into the murky depths of its characters, rendering the fallout of its lead character’s transformation as far more subterranean.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
Local residents dug them by hand out of the terrain’s red basaltic soil, resulting in an approximately 6,000-foot-long network of rooms and passageways that existed on three subterranean levels, ranging from 33 to 75 feet below ground.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Subterranean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subterranean. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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