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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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He said software firms were also seeing AI projects convert into revenue more slowly, but added: "This is not the time to panic and sell all the tech winners and head into the bunker."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Inside an underground bunker several miles away, a group of soldiers from Ukraine’s 72nd Brigade sat before a set of large screens.

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

The boys race from their bunker and go running down their slack-dump firing range, the joy of youth and scientific interest playing across their delighted faces.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The plants, constructed in fortified bunkers and protected from drone attack by huge steel cages, are each capable of providing electricity and heat to several hundred of the city's high-rise apartment blocks.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Earlier in the war they destroyed Russian bunkers, bridges, ships and command centers at a time when Ukraine had few other weapons capable of doing so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Could they really survive living in underground bunkers?

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

“The ethnic patchwork appears to be a map of bunkered enclaves. Its center cannot hold because the city doesn’t have one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

“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

While most residents had fled, countless families remained bunkered beneath the complex of several buildings and a labyrinth of tunnels.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022

The shorter the hole the smaller should be the green, and the more closely should it be bunkered.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach

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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