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tunnel

[tuhn-l] / ˈtʌn l /


VERB
dig a passage through
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The City forward appeared as a 77th-minute substitute on Saturday but hobbled straight down the tunnel at full-time with Maresca initially expecting an "even worse injury".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

To investigate how nightjars fly, researchers studied the birds in a wind tunnel, recording their movements at different speeds and measuring the patterns of airflow left behind their wings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Footage shows the security employee going back down the tunnel, presumably in search of the heckler, but it is unclear what happened after that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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

The wooden beam leads to a much wider tunnel.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

Footprint tunnels have also been installed at Bere Marsh Farm in Dorset and at Pierrepont Farm and Green Farm in Surrey.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He stabbed at the earth with his tiny dagger, imagining that rats were popping up from make-believe tunnels.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

“Our estimates suggest that in 2019, 63% of nursing home profits were hidden and tunneled to related parties through inflated transfer prices,” the study says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

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

The incident occurred within the light-rail line’s most dangerous stretch, on MLK Way South, where trains are on the surface rather than being elevated or tunneled like other parts of the line.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

Carefully he turned the soft yellow pages of his book, a few delicately tunneled by worms.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

The road narrowed and tunnelled through the lush woods.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016

During the construction of the dam, they tunnelled into the rock at the base of the slide and drilled hundreds of drainage holes upward into the plane of failure.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The jeweller was working again, bent over his bench, the tube tunnelled into his face.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

This interference completely suppressed the tunneling, leaving the simulated particle frozen in its original state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

His tunneling firm, The Boring Company, moved to Bastrop in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

The Boring Company, a tunneling startup that works closely with Tesla, just raised $3 billion through a private funding round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

We are now tunneling below it from both sides, which is even harder to do.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

"Up ahead, even now, we might run into water which would drown the people tunnelling," said Dix.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

They are widely seen as a pest on agricultural land because their tunnelling can damage the root systems of crops and pasture and the molehills can cause damage to machinery.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Leeds lost its sprawling tram network in 1959 but, just 15 years earlier, civic planners had been contemplating tunnelling beneath the city centre to create an underground system.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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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