bunker
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Hit by the second global energy crisis in four years, governments are developing their own bunker mentality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Called Fort, it is a shed-like bunker with fire-proof doors and materials built to hold up to eight people and valuables with breathable air for four hours.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Playing in the second group, Juarez was one under through 13 and blasted out of a frontside bunker to within four feet of the hole at 14 before sinking his birdie putt.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
She mishit her drive badly enough that the ball was lost in the bushes, and her next attempt found a bunker.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
I felt emotionally anesthetized yet hyperaware, as if I had fled into a bunker deep inside my skull and was peering out at the wreckage around me through a narrow, armored slit.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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