tunnel
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"That's how we showed that this core-shell-shell structure could actually function as a one-directional energy tunnel for incoming light."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
By the time they approached the tunnel, close to United's 'singing section', supporters were asking Michael Carrick and his players 'what was that?'.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Then this past spring, the lawsuit claims, a Metrolink train carrying hundreds of passengers got stuck in a tunnel when a fuel manifold failed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
He was found dead six days later in the water tunnel in the north of the city, which leads into Belfast Lough, with the cause of death found to be drowning.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
They pulled Marlie up after them as they scrambled out of the tunnel, almost running, their hearts beating wildly at the thought of the fate they had escaped.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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
More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Many tunnels are faster, safer and much more expensive for migrants who would otherwise face increasingly dangerous mountain and desert routes, experts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Our focus is on search and rescue at three levels - on ground, by air, and in the tunnels," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
In many places, the tunnels had been reinforced with massive columns to keep the buildings above from collapsing down into them.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
“Our estimates suggest that in 2019, 63% of nursing home profits were hidden and tunneled to related parties through inflated transfer prices,” the study says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
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
The agency has assumed 12 years overall construction from 2027-2039, for the mostly tunneled Sodo-to-Ballard extension.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Ahead of me, the drive tunneled between massive oaks, dark with shadows, but lit here and there with patches of moonlight.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Zubaidi was also in the news in 2021, when he tunnelled out of an Israeli prison before being recaptured after five days.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
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
Yet the magazine’s final moment of thumb-in-the-eye relevance—this May, when Donald Trump compared Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E. Neuman—emphasized just how deeply Mad has tunnelled its way into the culture, waiting to inspire anew.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2019
We tunnelled them out and ringed the tunnels with snow-forts.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2018
Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company, made an unusual demand of some investors in its latest funding round: If they wanted in, they had to help build the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Then it would be heads down, resume marching, get back to tunneling.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"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
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
