tunnel
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Their grandmother, Rae, escaped from a Jewish ghetto in what was then the Polish city of Novogrudok by clawing her way through a tunnel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Then, the wind tunnel was not ready to receive any modelling until mid-April, so now they were nearly four months behind the others.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
In December 1910 the Newhall tunnel opened wide — well, about as wide as Beale’s Cut a few hundred yards away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The facility appears to have four tunnel entrances, two on the eastern side and two on the western end.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The elevator doors open into a small tunnel with a ladder going up the wall.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Local firefighters aided by colleagues deployed from the capital, Bogotá, and the disaster response team of the national police force had to dig two tunnels to reach her.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
It will also administer and implement a process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Hamas is also expected to hand over maps of its tunnels, weapons factories and depots, according to the draft of the agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The roadmap lays out a process to decommission and store Hamas's heavy weapons, military production sites, weapons depots and tunnels, to be implemented by NCAG.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The three tunnels look the same—made of stone and lit by candles with no end in sight.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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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
Then, with closed eyes, he moved his head and tunneled under the pillow with me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said crews tunnelled through the debris to get to the two people inside the car and stabilise the vehicle.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021
According to the report, the six were cell mates and tunnelled out of Gilboa prison in northern Israel, where security forces launched a search.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021
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
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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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
According to the researchers, satellite glial cells appear to pass healthy mitochondria directly into sensory neurons through tiny structures known as tunneling nanotubes.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
With Traylor, they were brothers and they were doing the tunneling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
It is the strongest of dwarf urges, a genetic memory born from millennia spent tunneling.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Cowi's tunnelling timeline has three years for preliminary work and five years for construction.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
However, in her Budget in October the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, committed to the funding required to begin tunnelling work to Euston.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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
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
Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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