tunnel
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A tunnel links the SpaceX and Boring properties, which straddle a public road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There’s a long walk through a tunnel to many American gates and greeters try to arrange a car if one is available, a perk typically only guaranteed if you buy Five Star Select.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"That's how we showed that this core-shell-shell structure could actually function as a one-directional energy tunnel for incoming light."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Then this past spring, the lawsuit claims, a Metrolink train carrying hundreds of passengers got stuck in a tunnel when a fuel manifold failed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Seidel’s newest tunnel started in the basement of a café in West Berlin and led to the cellar of an apartment house in the East.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
“They said at the time, ‘we are going to put everything in tunnels, inside a mountain,’” Mr. Grossi said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Many tunnels are faster, safer and much more expensive for migrants who would otherwise face increasingly dangerous mountain and desert routes, experts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The air, too, smelled slightly better; musty, as if it had lain unstirred for ages, but without the choking closeness of the tunnels.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
“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
Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
Silverfish tunneled through the pages, burrowing arbitrarily from species to species, turning organized information into yellow lace.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Zubaidi was also in the news in 2021, when he tunnelled out of an Israeli prison before being recaptured after five days.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
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
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
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 team also examined how neighboring edge states interact, finding that their energy levels shift because of a combination of electrostatic interactions and quantum tunneling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
There are strict rules in California around the purchasing of dynamite, which is generally restricted to licensed professionals working in mining and quarry operations, building demolitions, tunneling projects and specialized industrial activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
My brother has claimed one of them for his own; he plans to excavate it, tunneling down from the top, then in from the side to make a side entrance.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
"Up ahead, even now, we might run into water which would drown the people tunnelling," said Dix.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
