bunker
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From their bunker, the Ukrainians discussed ways to bring the guidance drone closer to Stupnikov and center it over the intended route.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A Russian drone zips across the computer screen, startling the commanders keeping watch over the battlefield via a live stream in their bunker.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Each bunker leads into an extensive tunnel network beneath the rocks that was built to protect the island in case of attack.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
From below, it looks like an isolated bunker built on the side of a canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Three minutes, and he could be on his way to a bunker carved into a mountain.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Footage shot by Israeli forces after they invaded southern Lebanon shows well-fortified bunkers, which descend several stories underground and contain huge caches of armaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As the age’s potent mix of terror and delirium spun on, designers and illustrators proposed ways to live comfortably in space, underwater or in underground bunkers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"There are a lot of bunkers that you don't really want to be in. You can have a lot of really long irons into par-four holes as well."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
These are bunkers, of which there are 3,600 on the island.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
We kept walking until we reached one of the oblong sand bunkers of the golf course.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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Antoniadi kept Pizza Hut closed and bunkered down in the restaurant for three days.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Instead of traveling across Europe and visiting family in Maryland, Strachan bunkered down at home with the rest of the country and made the most of his retirement at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
“We have shown that we can not only fight, but we can also sing very nice,” said Vitaliy, a soldier bunkered down north of Kyiv.
From Reuters ● May 16, 2022
The elevated green is heavily bunkered, and the wedge to the green is complicated by a rolling fairway with uneven lies.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022
Having been bunkered many times in the past, and knowing that she would be bunkered upon many occasions in the future, Miss Jones was not disposed to take a tragic view of the situation.
From The Visioning by Susan Glaspell
Singapore will start issuing bunkering licences next year to companies supplying methanol as marine fuel, in an effort to help global shipping cut carbon emissions, officials said Monday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
Shell and the BMI insist any occurrences of oil spills in the region are because of theft - known in the industry as "oil bunkering".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
"They need to choose a machinery system and make plans for the future. At the same time, there is considerable uncertainty related to fuel prices, carbon pricing, fuel bunkering availability and safety," he says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
So come out, come out, wherever you’re bunkering: It’s time to say an early hello to spring.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
The bosun and his worthies quickly gathered to remove the disgraceful signs of bunkering; they swept and garnished, the stylish shipping clerk came aboard with his final papers to see Hosea and Phillips.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
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