tunnel
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In tunnel field tests, strawberries protected by Plant Armor produced yields as much as 3.56 times higher than uncovered plants.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
A third runway would mean demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting rivers and rerouting a section of the M25 motorway through a tunnel.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Maharjan said he survived by reaching an upper floor of the tunnel site and drinking water while waiting for help.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
A tunnel links the SpaceX and Boring properties, which straddle a public road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The car veers into another light tunnel, and it takes us above the governing district.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
Three people were rescued from deep inside tunnels days after the disaster, but there has been no confirmation of further survivors since a Chinese man was pulled out alive nearly a week ago.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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
Some of the tunnels overlap, and at one point they’re above, beside, and below us.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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
Separated from his regiment in the fighting, Thomas was captured by the enemy but has tunneled his way out of prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
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
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
The jeweller was working again, bent over his bench, the tube tunnelled into his face.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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
Bringing the two together raises a fundamental question: what happens to familiar thermodynamic processes when quantum effects such as tunneling, entanglement, and superposition enter the picture?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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
Access to 11 countries, AES-256 encryption with WireGuard, plus extras like split tunneling and Stealth protocol.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
And how could he be sure he was tunneling well under the riverbed?
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
"Up ahead, even now, we might run into water which would drown the people tunnelling," said Dix.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
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
Michael Greiner is the head of tunnelling at SCS JV.
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
