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tunnel

[tuhn-l] / ˈtʌn l /


VERB
dig a passage through
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On Wednesday, Eisenkot posted a video on X wishing Netanyahu a happy 77th birthday that featured a slate of AI-generated characters including a Hamas member speaking from a tunnel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

And, after back-to-back 17th-placed finishes, there are growing signs Roberto de Zerbi's side are showing there is real light at the end of a pretty dark tunnel.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

During pregame warmups, Doncic sprinted out of the Lakers tunnel and straight to Hachimura, who was warming up in the corner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

But when Ukraine destroyed an exit, the Russians would just dig into the soil around the breach and cut a new entry to the tunnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

As far as she knew, the wise old founder had never had to flee actors dressed as pirates by crawling through a dank, dark tunnel into the British Museum after hours.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The city’s subway trains sometimes halt in tunnels when power goes out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Once the lava drains away, it can leave behind hollow tunnels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Widening the Brynglas tunnels, for example, could cost £1.7bn, but pose an "engineering/geotechnical risk" and major construction disruption.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Nepal rescuers are still excavating hydropower tunnels swamped by freezing mud, with hundreds of workers among the missing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The tunnels of the Underground zip past the windows.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

The incident occurred within the light-rail line’s most dangerous stretch, on MLK Way South, where trains are on the surface rather than being elevated or tunneled like other parts of the line.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

The last thing she saw, through her tunneled view, was Ekon’s blurred silhouette as he marched away.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said crews tunnelled through the debris to get to the two people inside the car and stabilise the vehicle.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021

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

Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019

We tunnelled them out and ringed the tunnels with snow-forts.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2018

The jeweller was working again, bent over his bench, the tube tunnelled into his face.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

His tunneling firm, The Boring Company, moved to Bastrop in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

The team also examined how neighboring edge states interact, finding that their energy levels shift because of a combination of electrostatic interactions and quantum tunneling.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

The digging was easy and although they often broke off to feed or merely to sit in the sun, before midday Hazel was out of sight and tunneling between the tree roots.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"Up ahead, even now, we might run into water which would drown the people tunnelling," said Dix.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors.

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

In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".

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


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