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
Scientists discovered that the shape of the underside of the ice shelf strongly affects how seawater circulates below 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
Serbian midfielder Samardzic held his composure to slam home the penalty left-footed with the ball glancing the underside of the crossbar on its way into the net.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The underside of his mahogany desk swims into focus.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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
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
The plates on the back, called tergites, are reinforced and much larger than the plates on the undersides.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
I walked home under gray clouds whose undersides had been shredded.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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