bunker
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He said the work on the underground bunker may proceed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to complete construction of a ballroom and secure underground bunker at the White House, saying the project was essential for national security.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Some were wounded on the way to the bunker, but none were killed, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Beneath an unassuming hill just next to a newbuild housing estate there lies a bunker that was designed to keep Wales running in the event of a nuclear attack.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
When he comes out of the bunker with dirt in his hair, he doesn’t meet my eyes.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
These weapons allow the US to conduct precision strikes against hardened military targets, such as command bunkers or fortified military facilities, without putting manned aircraft in harm's way.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Hours later sirens sounded again, sending troops heading toward the bunkers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
These attacks have made Madyar a priority target for Russia, he says, forcing him into secret underground bunkers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
They were dug deep into the ground in reinforced bunkers.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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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
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
Sergei Zaharolka, the 51-year-old deputy director of the Severodonetsk School, was bunkered with his wife, Lila, and several others at the school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
This is a tree-y course, like New Zealand, really good, good greens, well bunkered, a trifle on the short side, but full of interest.
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
If Kenwardine has bought the wharf, why’s he sending the coal away, instead of using it in the regular bunkering trade?”
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
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