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tunnel

[tuhn-l] / ˈtʌn l /


VERB
dig a passage through
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“It feels like a tunnel with no exit in sight.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

When the researchers ran their simulation without magnetic flux, the particle could tunnel freely around the loop.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The noise built through the warm-ups, in the tunnel and during the anthems, until, finally, Haaland emerged into the blazing sunshine and took a long blue-eyed stare across the pitch at the five-time world champions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"We've been trying to keep it going but there's no light at the end of the tunnel," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The tunnel narrowed, and he reached yet another turning.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Once the lava drains away, it can leave behind hollow tunnels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Since it began surveys in May, the CRT has installed 39 footprint tunnels along hedgerows and woodland edges, with nine of the tunnels recording dormouse footprints.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In 2023, Ken Salazar, then the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said there were at least 200 tunnels that spanned the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In many places, the tunnels had been reinforced with massive columns to keep the buildings above from collapsing down into them.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

“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

The agency has assumed 12 years overall construction from 2027-2039, for the mostly tunneled Sodo-to-Ballard extension.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Something wiggling and strange tunneled through my stomach, half excitement, half terror.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

His body was finally pulled out late on Saturday after rescuers excavated much of an adjacent hillside and then tunnelled toward the bottom of the well.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022

On 10 March 1945, 70 German prisoners of war tunnelled their way out of the hut, which is now owned by the council.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

Elon Musk continues to draw investment dollars — this time for a tunneling company that just raised $3 billion so it can help “solve traffic” via expensive underground tunnels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company, made an unusual demand of some investors in its latest funding round: If they wanted in, they had to help build the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bringing the two together raises a fundamental question: what happens to familiar thermodynamic processes when quantum effects such as tunneling, entanglement, and superposition enter the picture?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company, is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at around $20 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Foremole had assured them that any attempted tunneling would take at least a few days before signs showed.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

If tunnelling releases it into a confined space and it comes into contact with a spark or another ignition source, it can ignite or explode, a government official said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Cowi's tunnelling timeline has three years for preliminary work and five years for construction.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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

Michael Greiner is the head of tunnelling at SCS JV.

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


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