bunker
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Deep in a bunker, a device resembling an alarm clock sits on the desk of Maj.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
He said the work on the underground bunker may proceed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Since its heyday as a planter’s mansion, parts of the house had been used as an army bunker, a birthing hospital, and a goat barn.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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"We are particularly alarmed by incidents in which U.S. diplomatic, military, and security personnel were unable to reach designated bunkers during Russian air raids," the statement says.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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
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
The real hydrogen bombs were removed from storage bunkers and loaded onto trucks.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Unable to find new employment, they pinched their pennies and bunkered down at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
Nevertheless he accomplished it perfectly and never once bunkered us by the way.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
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
Shell and the BMI insist any occurrences of oil spills in the region are because of theft - known in the industry as "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
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
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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