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tunnel

[tuhn-l] / ˈtʌn l /


VERB
dig a passage through
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Since the June 2025 attacks, satellite images show the tunnel complexes remain sealed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

But the often unflappable Kuss was on the ragged edge and crashed coming out of a tunnel approaching Alpe d'Huez town.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

In multiple missile base locations throughout the country, Iran has been setting new roads and reinforcing tunnel entrances, according to Ben Tzion Macales, an Israeli geo-analyst who has studied commercial satellite images of the sites.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Rescue operations are continuing to locate 13 others who are reported to be trapped in the tunnel since Monday's collapse.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

And flow it would, down through the long, steep tunnel that was its track through the Mountain's core.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

In recent months, he ventured underground, sleeping in New York City’s subway tunnels, according to his half-sister, who requested anonymity to speak freely about her younger brother.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

American forces could instead destroy the entrances and tunnels to the site to block access to the centrifuges, as they have done with other underground nuclear sites, according to experts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Construction appears ongoing at the site, which includes tunnels burrowing into the granite mountain from the east and west.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

In the mine where he works, the tunnels run as deep as 1,300 metres below the surface.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

“If there are tunnels beneath this part of the city,” she said, “does that mean there might be one underneath Asgard?”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

“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

Then someone else appeared from the crowd, and Annabeth’s vision tunneled.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

The road narrowed and tunnelled through the lush woods.

From The Guardian Apr. 28, 2016

Ace fighter-plane flyer Franz von Werra successfully tunnelled out with four other prisoners, the noise of their efforts masked by a performance of the POW choir.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2015

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

Many houses there were, chambers, halls, and passages, cut and tunnelled back into the walls upon their inner side, so that all the open circle was overlooked by countless windows and dark doors.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company, is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at around $20 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 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

This compact book weaves together topics including the microscopic quantum tunneling required for nuclear fusion and the macroscopic geometry of spacetime.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Waxman ultimately struck a compromise with Rep. Julian Dixon that allowed the project to proceed but prohibited tunneling in the Fairfax area for 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

I can see the pain tunneling its way through her face and body.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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

Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can be reproduced not only in the quantum world, but also in electrical circuits in the 'real world'.

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

I met him previously at the start of the project where he told me that "a lot of things have gone well but in tunnelling there's also exciting things" such as the "quite heterogeneous" geology.

From BBC Apr. 15, 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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