cavern
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Rasuwagadhi’s acting chief executive, Pushkar Amatya, deployed crews and equipment in a last-ditch search for people who might be trapped in the facility’s transformer cavern, but found no one there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The cave, an underwater system which extends for hundreds of meters through multiple chambers and internal passages, begins with a first large, bright cavern with a sandy bottom.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Over the next two years, starting in January, a team will excavate the cavern by removing rock and soil.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
As we make our way into the vast cavern, my guide explains how Eberhard dissected samples and sent them to England for analysis.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
At the other end of the cavern, the tunnel Hazel and Leo had entered was buried under tons of rubble.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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The U.S. has released more than 128 million barrels from strategic salt caverns on the Gulf Coast in a bid to mitigate the impact of the monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
European gas-storage facilities are spread across the Continent, from tank farms to massive underground caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Freshly excavated caverns 100m underground sit next to stores that have been used for sparkling wine, apples and cheese in recent years.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Fracturing wells, leaky pumps and other wear-and-tear are straining the Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It twinkled and glinted, like breathing, the float slow like breathing too, and debris half submerged, healing out to the sea and the caverns and the grottoes of the sea.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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