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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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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

Some were wounded on the way to the bunker, but none were killed, officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The room had been used as a dormitory when it was a nuclear bunker and he could "see where the outline of all the beds were".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

If he had to do something, though, better he build a bunker than join the army.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

These attacks have made Madyar a priority target for Russia, he says, forcing him into secret underground bunkers.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

The decades had altered the course’s identity with everything from new trees to renovated bunkers.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

They hurried to open the steel doors leading to the underground bunkers.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

From Slate Nov. 13, 2025

It is uphill but well within reach from the tee, and heavily bunkered.

From Seattle Times Jun. 15, 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

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

Having been bunkered many times in the past, and knowing that she would be bunkered upon many occasions in the future, Miss Jones was not disposed to take a tragic view of the situation.

From The Visioning by Susan Glaspell

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

So come out, come out, wherever you’re bunkering: It’s time to say an early hello to spring.

From Seattle Times Mar. 12, 2024

Insufficient coal for bunkering ships created a critical congestion of freight in Atlantic port terminals and in railroad yards hundreds of miles inland.

From Return-Loads Bureaus To Save Waste In Transportation by United States. Council of National Defense. Highway Transport Committee




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