tunnel
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Work on the site has continued steadily for the past 15 months, including truck traffic, tunnel reinforcements and a new security perimeter, according to Albright’s institute, which examines nuclear and nonproliferation issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
By the first week of June, crews had repaired the two roads, enabling trucks, visible on satellite images, to clear dirt and work on reopening the collapsed tunnel entrances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were 27 people working in different sections inside the tunnel - of which two managed to escape after the explosion and 25 were trapped.
From BBC ● 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
Our robot was standing in a long, shadowy tunnel.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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
The children thought it all a great game; by turns they pretended they were moles in dark tunnels, or explorers charting an unmapped jungle, or Postal Tygers delivering the mail along an unfamiliar route.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
It has been chewed up by human endeavors such as agriculture, then tunneled under for the warrens of imported rabbits and the dens of red foxes brought in to control the resulting bunny population explosion.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Something wiggling and strange tunneled through my stomach, half excitement, half terror.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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
Her other children have tunnelled under their home, building a safe zone.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2021
We tunnelled them out and ringed the tunnels with snow-forts.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 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
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
To examine the material's properties, the researchers used molecular beam epitaxy together with low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, allowing them to probe its electronic behavior with atomic level precision.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
They also provide advanced privacy features, including kill switches, ad and tracker blockers and split tunneling.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 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
And how could he be sure he was tunneling well under the riverbed?
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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
These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
"There's a big tunnelling community back home where I'm from," said Jack.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
He thinks the success of the tunnelling so far bodes well for completing the tunnel to Euston.
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
