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Tayaba’s tribe has opposed the Newsom administration’s push to build the Delta Conveyance Project, a 45-mile tunnel that would transport water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A newly developed textile covering helped strawberry plants produce more than three times as much fruit in tunnel field trials, while showing no harmful effects on plant health.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

"She saw the light at the end of the tunnel and followed it doggedly," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Maharjan said he survived by reaching an upper floor of the tunnel site and drinking water while waiting for help.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The rusted train tracks come to an end, but the tunnel keeps going.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Rescuers have continued searching hydropower tunnels for hundreds of missing workers, engineers and other personnel, weeks after the disaster.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Footprint tunnels have also been installed at Bere Marsh Farm in Dorset and at Pierrepont Farm and Green Farm in Surrey.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“With the way things were falling down around our ears, I wouldn’t be surprised if the tunnels all collapsed.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

“At these depths, there would not be noise and vibration,” Sheridan said, noting that Metro had tunneled in similar soil conditions at similar depths without settlement problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

Then, with closed eyes, he moved his head and tunneled under the pillow with me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

On 10 March 1945, 70 German soldiers tunnelled their way out of Hut 9 and under the perimeter wire.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

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

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

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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, is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at around $20 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

There are strict rules in California around the purchasing of dynamite, which is generally restricted to licensed professionals working in mining and quarry operations, building demolitions, tunneling projects and specialized industrial activities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

If tunnelling releases it into a confined space and it comes into contact with a spark or another ignition source, it can ignite or explode, a government official said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

They are widely seen as a pest on agricultural land because their tunnelling can damage the root systems of crops and pasture and the molehills can cause damage to machinery.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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

Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.

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