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As for the beaches, most guests don’t bother going, since the Atlantic side has dangerous undertows while the black-sand Caribbean one named Oranje is not particularly inviting.
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Alev Aktar, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
And for a brief while, many observers sensed that the eternal undertow of Pakistani politics had somehow reversed.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
And yet, there’s another group of women designers who feel the tug of the undertow of something darker, romantic, gothic (as in Mary Shelley, not Siouxsie Sioux, though maybe sometimes her too) and delightfully fragmented and fractured.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Their post-hardcore venom sparks with a combination of acidic wit, biting humor and cutthroat frustration that reflects the lives of those caught in the undertow of the American dream.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
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Alev Aktar, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
And for a brief while, many observers sensed that the eternal undertow of Pakistani politics had somehow reversed.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
And yet, there’s another group of women designers who feel the tug of the undertow of something darker, romantic, gothic (as in Mary Shelley, not Siouxsie Sioux, though maybe sometimes her too) and delightfully fragmented and fractured.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Their post-hardcore venom sparks with a combination of acidic wit, biting humor and cutthroat frustration that reflects the lives of those caught in the undertow of the American dream.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for undertow
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“Undertow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertow. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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