tunnel
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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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