bunker
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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
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
While the ballroom has drawn headlines, the project also includes a military bunker.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Schillinger doesn’t even know where the bunker is.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Footage shot by Israeli forces after they invaded southern Lebanon shows well-fortified bunkers, which descend several stories underground and contain huge caches of armaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Could they really survive living in underground bunkers?
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
“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
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
Of the Temple of Vespasian, all he thought was that it would be a devil of a place to be bunkered behind.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
It also reported its teams were cleaning up 18 reported spills from an estimated 60 bunkering points.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Singapore will start issuing bunkering licences next year to companies supplying methanol as marine fuel, in an effort to help global shipping cut carbon emissions, officials said Monday.
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
Exports of products already accepted by Russian Railways and Transneft can go ahead, while higher-sulphur gasoil and fuel used for bunkering will be exempt from the ban.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023
I will try to relate it here mainly in the words of the chief engineer of a certain steamship which, after bunkering, left Lerwick, bound for Iceland.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
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