as in underworld
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Noun
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Caught Stealing stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who is suddenly immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the late 1990s.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025 -
There’s nothing wrong with a performer of Cruise's stature and charisma grappling with darkness and ambiguity in this way — in the past that resulted in one of his best, most misunderstood performances, as a doctor slipping down into a moral underworld in Eyes Wide Shut.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
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The ensuing inferno was hot enough that any evidence of the lab’s purpose seemed to have burned away.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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But after being asked in several emails by an editorial writer if the L.A. inferno showed the need for a triage approach, a spokesperson for Mayor Todd Gloria defended his handling of the fire threat.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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The internal affairs complaint that follows will likely join thousands of others in administrative purgatory.—
Natasha Dartigue,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Apr. 2025
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An announced Waititi film similarly seems to be trapped in development purgatory.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Tartarus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tartarus. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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