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CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
The National Academies, a private nonprofit organization, has issued biennial reports on the effort’s progress since 2004, under a congressional mandate.
—Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
On the lower end of the attendance spectrum, Liberation, certainly one of the best new plays of the season, was criminally under-attended at just 52% of the James Earl Jones Theatre’s capacity, for a gross of $346,426.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025
Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
The Knicks took an unusual path to finding Thibodeau’s replacement by requesting permission from at least five teams to speak to their current under-contract head coach.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 10 Dec. 2025
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Preposition
Rescue workers searched on Friday for dozens of people buried under a mountain of garbage that collapsed at a landfill in the central Philippines, killing at least one.
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Women are also grossly under-represented in business and the media.
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My natural teeth are still under.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for under
Preposition
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Two men pushed Hodges against a wall; one man reached beneath his protective visor and dug into his right eye with his thumb.—
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And while Americans’ overall ideological self-identification looks stable in the aggregate (37% very conservative/conservative, 34% moderate, 25% very liberal/liberal), a January 2025 Gallup poll shows that this steadiness hides tectonic tensions tugging beneath the surface.—
Adverb
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The team moves on, unaware that the math underneath is wrong.—
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For the visit to the Charing Cross Hospital on Thursday, the future queen re-wore a burgundy Roland Mouret pantsuit, styled this time with a coordinating ME+EM shirt underneath, as opposed to the white and pink colorways she’s styled under the suit in the past.—
Adjective
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Characters like Moana, Moni, and Loto can swing from the rope, bathe Pua, and rest in the below-deck living space.—
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Star addressed all sorts of plot points from Mindy’s cliffhanger ending to the fate of Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) and Agence Grateau in the below interview.—
Adjective
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And ultimately, the Supreme Court overruled those lower court rulings and did declare the embryos as children qualifying under the wrongful death statute.—
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Lower gas demand amid increasing supply has led to lower pump prices.—
Adjective
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The capsaicin in chili peppers may modestly increase metabolism and help low-grade inflammation.—
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Reaves has missed the Lakers’ last three games with a low-grade calf strain and could return as soon as Tuesday in Phoenix.—
Adjective
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Two nights after falling at lowly Washington, the Magic beat the Nets for the eighth straight time to improve to 21-17.—
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Even the lowly Atlanta Thrashers had that weird week of Chris Chelios.—
Adjective
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Transpose the 2023 data with the current chart and the bottom quarter drops off into the void.—
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Community Center is meant to occupy a bottom rung where projects are still forming and audience relationships can begin.—
Adjective
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Then Singleton turned and stared directly at Matt and his family on the sidelines, put his hand underneath his nether regions, and hopped back and forth.—
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The laconic physical therapist clad in a white coat trained her eyes up the barrel of my nether regions, cueing me to tense my pelvic floor and relax it again.—
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“Under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/under. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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