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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the flipside of utopia, dystopia, has also been a fertile undercurrent of modernity.
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But with every initiative, they encountered an undercurrent of resistance.
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It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent .
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There are powerful undercurrents in the 1988 Education Act which pull in this direction.
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There was a political undercurrent as well, though this was less explicit.
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Yet the defence of the welfare state in the face of the new immigration has revealed an undercurrent of racism.