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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Recent Examples of underworld
This underworld of extremes has given us some of the most impressive creatures ever discovered—some hauntingly beautiful, others delightfully bizarre.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Colin Farrell plays the Penguin, whose real name is Oz Cobb, and who is struggling to rise to power in the fictional city's criminal underworld.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Colin Farrell plays the Penguin, whose real name is Oz Cobb, and who is struggling to rise to power in the fictional city's criminal underworld.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underworld
Noun
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But as anybody working as a music creator knows, creating the music is only the start in a series of dancing monkey chores to make sure my work doesn’t disappear into the abyss.—
Kay Hanley,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Feb. 2025
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With the death of our local paper, where will local citizens get the information needed to keep us from a dark abyss where lies become truth and truth becomes lies?—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.—
Sofia Perez,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
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The same netherworld where Julien enjoyed torturing Cortland during his statue days.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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