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tunnel

[tuhn-l] / ˈtʌn l /


VERB
dig a passage through
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And by kickoff later that afternoon, Balogun was walking out of the tunnel alongside his teammates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

"I felt the pressure from the engineers: the more horizontally the tunnel advanced, the more unstable it became," recounted Torres, who participated in the rescue of 33 miners in Chile in 2010.

From Barron's • Jul. 7, 2026

"If you go in at night, you see the eyes of the tarantulas that live inside. But once you walk down a ten-meter-long tunnel underground, you start finding the fossils."

From Science Daily • Jul. 5, 2026

"The details are quite closely guarded, but it will travel through the tunnel," Cullinan told BBC Radio 4, referring to the Channel tunnel that connects the UK and France.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

Mold, moss, and roots have taken over this tunnel.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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