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bunker

[buhng-ker] / ˈbʌŋ kər /
NOUN
underground shelter
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NOUN
hazard on a golf course
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Visiting contemporary art inside a former World War II bunker is such a uniquely Berlin experience.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Each bunker leads into an extensive tunnel network beneath the rocks that was built to protect the island in case of attack.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

From below, it looks like an isolated bunker built on the side of a canyon.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

A district court ordered a halt to work on the aboveground ballroom while allowing construction of the underground military bunker to proceed, but that order had been stayed while on appeal.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

“Do you know what a bunker is, my good man?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On our way up here, we had passed graffiti flamingos on the sides of bunkers and on the path itself, but he had made no reference to them in his spiel about the island’s history.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

But the appeals court noted that the existing injunction specifically allows construction of underground bunkers, bomb shelters and military and medical infrastructure to continue, along with aboveground work strictly necessary for security.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

These weapons allow the US to conduct precision strikes against hardened military targets, such as command bunkers or fortified military facilities, without putting manned aircraft in harm's way.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Missiles typically carry bigger warheads than drones, can penetrate bunkers and are harder to intercept.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

We kept walking until we reached one of the oblong sand bunkers of the golf course.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.

From Slate Nov. 13, 2025

It is uphill but well within reach from the tee, and heavily bunkered.

From Seattle Times Jun. 15, 2022

Ukrainian defenders bunkered in a pharmaceutical plant before finally retreating over a bridge to Severodonetsk.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2022

“We have shown that we can not only fight, but we can also sing very nice,” said Vitaliy, a soldier bunkered down north of Kyiv.

From Reuters May 16, 2022

This is a hateful subject, but one which demands the most careful and unprejudiced consideration, for are not even the best of us bunkered almost daily?

From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

"This marks an important step towards establishing methanol bunkering at scale and driving Singapore's ambition to be a sustainable multi-fuel bunkering hub," the MPA said.

From Barron's Nov. 24, 2025

Shell said it takes active measures to prevent oil spills caused by oil bunkering.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2025

"They need to choose a machinery system and make plans for the future. At the same time, there is considerable uncertainty related to fuel prices, carbon pricing, fuel bunkering availability and safety," he says.

From Science Daily Apr. 16, 2024

So come out, come out, wherever you’re bunkering: It’s time to say an early hello to spring.

From Seattle Times Mar. 12, 2024

The bosun and his worthies quickly gathered to remove the disgraceful signs of bunkering; they swept and garnished, the stylish shipping clerk came aboard with his final papers to see Hosea and Phillips.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden




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