underground route
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Thousands of people respond to the lure of a better life abroad every year, but many take the underground route - via smugglers and sometimes dangerous journeys by sea and road.
From Reuters • Oct. 28, 2019
The Boring Co. has also proposed a 3.6-mile underground route that would carry baseball fans between Dodger Stadium and a nearby Metro subway station.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2019
With the rise of the Islamic State in war-wracked Syria and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Emwazi devised an underground route to escape his adopted country in 2012.
From Washington Times • Jan. 24, 2016
He added they had also conducted a forensics sweep along the underground route the prisoners apparently used and “beyond their point of exit from the facility.”
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2015
After they left Philadelphia, they were guided to New York city, and then on up through New York state, stopping at various stations on the underground route in Albany, in Utica.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
