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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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Inside the bunker, the Ukrainians were transfixed by the live feed of his passage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Deep inside an underground bunker in eastern Ukraine, commanders monitor the battlefield through a live video feed as a Ukrainian drone intercepts a Russian surveillance drone.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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

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

As the age’s potent mix of terror and delirium spun on, designers and illustrators proposed ways to live comfortably in space, underwater or in underground bunkers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They’ve floated ideas like buying remote islands, stockpiling iodine pills, or moving to electromagnetically shielded bunkers in the desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

There is water from the left of the tee, while bunkers await players attempting to play safely towards the right.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

These are bunkers, of which there are 3,600 on the island.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

When he realized that his observatory shook slightly in the wind, making his measurements imperfect, he moved his instruments into underground bunkers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

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

The elevated green is heavily bunkered, and the wedge to the green is complicated by a rolling fairway with uneven lies.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022

But this not bad chap had "got himself badly bunkered."

From My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins

To their surprise, they were told it was safe to play in the port city about an hour's drive east of Dubai, home to a key global oil storage and bunkering hub.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

"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

"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

The proposed expansion would have allowed vessels and so-called bunkering barges to load liquid natural gas to power their own ships, but also to transfer fuel to other ships, making them floating fuel suppliers.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?" said Charles, bunkering his cigar-stump badly to the right of the coal-scuttle.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 by Various


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