tunnel
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Nepalese hydropower workers have told the BBC about the catastrophic moment water from the Trishuli River crashed into their tunnel as the region was inundated by deadly flash floods last week.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
At another hydropower tunnel, Nepali rescuers and foreign nationals reached about 330 feet inside a tunnel only to find it completely blocked, the army spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The relationship between the Cameroon international and Lyon's ultras fractured further when he stormed down the tunnel and kicked a rubbish bin in frustration after being substituted during a 2-1 home defeat by Strasbourg.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The team, comprising around 90 army and police personnel, first broke through into the upper part of a mud-swamped 3A tunnel on Saturday night, pumping air inside and sending in a camera.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
An arrow erupted from the wall, struck the opposite wall of the tunnel, and disappeared.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Engineers have been pumping air into these tunnels as part of a huge rescue operation.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The death toll from devastating Himalayan glacial floods crossed the grim 1,000 mark on Tuesday, as Chinese and Nepali teams searched for survivors including dozens feared trapped in hydropower tunnels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
"We are focused on search and rescue efforts at the tunnels, our work is continuing," Nepal Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
More than 4,700 people are missing, many of them hydropower project workers trapped by dozens of feet of mud in lengthy mountain tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
I could’ve sworn they were all about it back at the three tunnels of doom and gloom.
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
Something wiggling and strange tunneled through my stomach, half excitement, half terror.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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 prisoners of war tunnelled their way out of the hut, which is now owned by the council.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
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
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
Access to 11 countries, AES-256 encryption with WireGuard, plus extras like split tunneling and Stealth protocol.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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
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
McGoran also says that technologies such as laser-guidance systems and gyroscopes, which help machines work out their position relative to the world around them, have made tunnelling more accurate in recent years.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
I met him previously at the start of the project where he told me that "a lot of things have gone well but in tunnelling there's also exciting things" such as the "quite heterogeneous" geology.
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
