passageway
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Finally, they had to dig a passageway, "a tiny tunnel the size of a person", through the debris at the top of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“The inside is arranged with the measured confidence of Spanish Colonial design at its most resolved, delightfully adding a secret passageway to a speakeasy behind a combination vault,” it states.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The 1,200-square-foot Ship Wreck House has three decks and pirate details, such as a water cannon and secret passageway leading to a treasure-themed chamber with a skeleton and a chest of doubloons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Prabowo said on Monday that Indonesia and Singapore "have an interest in keeping the Strait of Malacca as a free passageway".
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
When the doors opened, he stepped out into a torch-lit stone passageway quite different from the wood-paneled and carpeted corridors above.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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The meandering floor plan, with its rooms of various sizes and orientations alongside their resulting passageways and corners, demands that you wander, not map, your perusal of the galleries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Footage shared by the rescuers showed cave divers crawling through narrow, muddy passageways that were almost completely flooded.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
There are romantic ruins, secret passageways and cryptic clues to hidden treasure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The move could bring some barrels back into circulation relatively quickly as one of the world’s major maritime passageways, the Strait of Hormuz, remains effectively shut.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
It was almost a block away, but suddenly Smith and the other men turned from the main hallway and began descending stairs into passageways that became more and more dim.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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