bunker
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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
Deep inside an underground bunker in eastern Ukraine, commanders monitor the battlefield through a live video feed as a Ukrainian drone intercepts a Russian surveillance drone.
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
While the ballroom has drawn headlines, the project also includes a military bunker.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Would news make it to my hometown of Biržai, to the dark bunker in the woods where my brother and father were thought to be hiding?
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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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
They’ve floated ideas like buying remote islands, stockpiling iodine pills, or moving to electromagnetically shielded bunkers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
These are bunkers, of which there are 3,600 on the island.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Average Soviet citizens had no money for private bunkers, so the focus was on building public shelters in the basements of large buildings.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
“The ethnic patchwork appears to be a map of bunkered enclaves. Its center cannot hold because the city doesn’t have one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
It is uphill but well within reach from the tee, and heavily bunkered.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 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
But poor Willy on that occasion got heavily bunkered; lost his head a little and perhaps his temper more than a little.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
People in the Florida city have "seen bad storms before" but are "bunkering up", he said, adding: "You don't want to underestimate a storm like this".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Singapore will start issuing bunkering licences next year to companies supplying methanol as marine fuel, in an effort to help global shipping cut carbon emissions, officials said Monday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 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
Russia approved some changes to its fuel export ban, lifting the restrictions for fuel used as bunkering for some vessels and diesel with high sulphur content, a government document showed on Monday.
From Reuters ● Sep. 25, 2023
I will try to relate it here mainly in the words of the chief engineer of a certain steamship which, after bunkering, left Lerwick, bound for Iceland.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
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