tunnel
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"Those who returned from the hydropower site said there were people inside the tunnel," she told BBC News Nepali.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
At the Upper Trishuli 3A site, rescuers broke through into the upper part of a mud-swamped tunnel, pumping air inside, then using drilling and excavator machines to dig down.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
At another hydropower tunnel, Nepali rescuers and foreign nationals reached about 330 feet inside a tunnel only to find it completely blocked, the army spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
In the morning, Duane volunteered to clear the snow that blocked the girl’s tunnel entrance and all the snow that had accumulated beyond it too.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The families of more than 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels along Nepal's Trishuli River are clinging to hope their loved ones can be found alive.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Australian engineer Arnold Dix, who has been helping Nepalese authorities with the underground search operations remotely, said rescuers had been struggling to find the tunnels.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Nepali army inserted a pipe into one of the tunnels at the Trishuli 3A hydroelectric site late on Saturday and started sending air through it, Minister Sudan Gurung said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah said in a Facebook post that rescue efforts are focusing on these workers, some of whom are trapped in tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The schematic of a dark, foreboding mountain range was scrawled on the paper, showing tunnels, access points, and exits.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
“At these depths, there would not be noise and vibration,” Sheridan said, noting that Metro had tunneled in similar soil conditions at similar depths without settlement problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
In 2021, using lidar technology, Estrada-Belli found evidence that looters had tunneled inside a seemingly royal pyramid within the city’s monumental core.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024
Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
He tunneled through the watery darkness, and then the rock above them vanished.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
On 10 March 1945, 70 German soldiers tunnelled their way out of Hut 9 and under the perimeter wire.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2021
According to the report, the six were cell mates and tunnelled out of Gilboa prison in northern Israel, where security forces launched a search.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021
Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
The suspected mastermind of France’s “heist of the century” has gone on trial more than 40 years after robbers tunnelled through sewers to snatch the equivalent of €29m from a bank vault.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2018
The jeweller was working again, bent over his bench, the tube tunnelled into his face.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Instead, it appears to travel through quantum mechanical tunneling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Access to 11 countries, AES-256 encryption with WireGuard, plus extras like split tunneling and Stealth protocol.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
According to the researchers, satellite glial cells appear to pass healthy mitochondria directly into sensory neurons through tiny structures known as tunneling nanotubes.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
This compact book weaves together topics including the microscopic quantum tunneling required for nuclear fusion and the macroscopic geometry of spacetime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
I can see the pain tunneling its way through her face and body.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
However, in her Budget in October the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, committed to the funding required to begin tunnelling work to Euston.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can happen not only in a more theoretical world, but also in electrical circuits in the 'real world'.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
