underside
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The brain tumour, he said, was like "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball".
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
To investigate the process, the team combined a highly detailed map of the underside of the Fimbulisen Ice Shelf with a high resolution computer model of the ocean cavity beneath it.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
They often keep the underside of each slab as it is instead of flattening the bottoms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Max Beier almost put Dortmund ahead in the first half but his effort was deflected by Denis Vavro's last-ditch block onto the underside of the bar.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
Then he pointed to the underside of my arm.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Analysis has shown Punk and Emo had smooth undersides, indicating they likely lived on the seabed.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Aescape has heated “hands,” which look like giant pads with touch points on their undersides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Rignot said the project helped him and his colleagues develop a better understanding of the behavior of seawater on undersides of Thwaites Glacier.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
Certain species, like the pythons, have specialized muscles that connect their ribs directly to their skin, allowing them to use just the skin on their undersides to push against the ground and move forward.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
It had rained heavily, and though the rain had stopped, wind still blew, and the leaves of the trees fluttered and revealed their pale undersides.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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