bunker
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He said software firms were also seeing AI projects convert into revenue more slowly, but added: "This is not the time to panic and sell all the tech winners and head into the bunker."
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
But this language reads like a lawyer felt something had to be included, not like Amodei is prepping in a bunker armed with a giant “off” switch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
A Russian drone zips across the computer screen, startling the commanders keeping watch over the battlefield via a live stream in their bunker.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Each bunker leads into an extensive tunnel network beneath the rocks that was built to protect the island in case of attack.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
“We are going to stay in the bunker today,” she told Ugwu.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Footage shot by Israeli forces after they invaded southern Lebanon shows well-fortified bunkers, which descend several stories underground and contain huge caches of armaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As the age’s potent mix of terror and delirium spun on, designers and illustrators proposed ways to live comfortably in space, underwater or in underground bunkers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
There is water from the left of the tee, while bunkers await players attempting to play safely towards the right.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
On our way up here, we had passed graffiti flamingos on the sides of bunkers and on the path itself, but he had made no reference to them in his spiel about the island’s history.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
I’m going to find the house and bunkers empty.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Instead of traveling across Europe and visiting family in Maryland, Strachan bunkered down at home with the rest of the country and made the most of his retirement at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
The elevated green is heavily bunkered, and the wedge to the green is complicated by a rolling fairway with uneven lies.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022
Of the Temple of Vespasian, all he thought was that it would be a devil of a place to be bunkered behind.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Singapore is the world's top bunkering hub due to its strategic location along the Strait of Malacca, having a well-developed infrastructure and access to refineries.
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
Exports of products already accepted by Russian Railways and Transneft can to go ahead, while higher-sulphur gasoil and fuel used for bunkering will be exempt from the ban.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
Thanks to the war these ports are in the center of the world's great trade routes and thus, geographically and economically their position is unique for bunkering and for export.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
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