tunnel
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There is also a living willow tunnel and an insect and bee "hotel" and there are activity days and talks for children and adults.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Despite warnings that an escape attempt would turn the Romanian guards against the prisoners, Bob O’Reilly, Poulson’s Missouri-born pilot, schemes with a number of POWs to tunnel out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Visitors can see the docking tunnel where American and Russian astronauts greeted each other in space for the first time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
United supporters chanted Carrick's name as the former England international made his way to the tunnel after the match, but quickly directed boos at the players once Carrick had made his way off the pitch.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
I stick my arms out and feel around, but my hands never find the tunnel walls.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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The Khartiia Brigade has known since last year that Russia was using the tunnels to get to new sites for launching drone attacks and getting behind its lines near Kupyansk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Once the lava drains away, it can leave behind hollow tunnels.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Since it began surveys in May, the CRT has installed 39 footprint tunnels along hedgerows and woodland edges, with nine of the tunnels recording dormouse footprints.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some of the tunnels overlap, and at one point they’re above, beside, and below us.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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It tunneled 435 feet through the mountains for slightly easier descents and ascents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
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
I walked down a tunneled corridor to the legal visitation area, each step echoing ominously across the spotless tiled floor.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
On 10 March 1945, 70 German soldiers tunnelled their way out of Hut 9 and under the perimeter wire.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2021
The road narrowed and tunnelled through the lush woods.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016
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
Here Odysseus tunnelled, and raked together with his hands a wide bed—for a fall of leaves was there, enough to save two men or maybe three on a winter night, a night of bitter cold.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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With their simulated loop in place, the scientists examined how a matter particle moved between locations through a process known as quantum tunneling.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
This interference completely suppressed the tunneling, leaving the simulated particle frozen in its original state.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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 Boring Company recently closed an investment round that would value the tunneling startup at around $20 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
He pulled himself between the ferns, tunneling in.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Cowi's tunnelling timeline has three years for preliminary work and five years for construction.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
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
Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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