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 group had been hunting for gold when they were cut off inside the cavern in an isolated part of the country after flash floods hit on 20 May.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
For the typically still-water environment, the waves disrupted the shallow shelf that the pupfish use as a spawning area, likely knocking eggs deep into the cavern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
We ride on through a cavern, between pillars of roots, over packed earth.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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Analysts said the trade would likely be necessary because the salt caverns are set up to contain mostly light to medium types of crude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
In underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana, the U.S. government stores hundreds of millions of barrels worth of oil in case of energy shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The deterioration limits how much crude can be pumped into and out of the caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They snake beneath the entire city, hundreds of miles of tunnels and caverns, some packed with centuries’ worth of bones.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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