bunker
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Deep in a bunker, a device resembling an alarm clock sits on the desk of Maj.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
He said the work on the underground bunker may proceed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
A district court ordered a halt to work on the aboveground ballroom while allowing construction of the underground military bunker to proceed, but that order had been stayed while on appeal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Schillinger doesn’t even know where the bunker is.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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"There are a lot of bunkers that you don't really want to be in. You can have a lot of really long irons into par-four holes as well."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
These are bunkers, of which there are 3,600 on the island.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the appeals court noted that the existing injunction specifically allows construction of underground bunkers, bomb shelters and military and medical infrastructure to continue, along with aboveground work strictly necessary for security.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
He threaded his drive through the fairway bunkers to give himself a good look at the green.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Terrorized Berlin inhabitants crowded into cellars, subways, underground bunkers, and concrete flak towers.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
“He proceeds not with a moral point but through observation of the way his characters either defend their bunkered existences or attempt to reach beyond them — or more commonly, some combination of the two.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
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
To their surprise, they were told it was safe to play in the port city about an hour's drive east of Dubai, home to a key global oil storage and bunkering hub.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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
The proposed expansion would have allowed vessels and so-called bunkering barges to load liquid natural gas to power their own ships, but also to transfer fuel to other ships, making them floating fuel suppliers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
If Kenwardine has bought the wharf, why’s he sending the coal away, instead of using it in the regular bunkering trade?”
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
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